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I understand the concept but am lost in the execution.

Currently in my links.html file I have

Code:
<a class="link" href="mailto:<%Contact Email%>"><%Contact Name%></a>

I changed it to

Code:
<a class="link" href="<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>"><%Contact Email%></a>

Figuring I need to make some changes in my jump.cgi, I removed

Code:
# Let's get the URL.
open (URL, "<$db_url_name") or &error ("unable to open url database: $db_url_name. Reason: $!");
while (<URL>) {
(/^$id$delim(.+)/o) or next;
chomp ($goto = $1);
last;
}
close URL;
$goto or &error ("Can't find link id: $id");

And replaced it with

Code:
# Let's get the Contact Email Address.
open (URL, "<$db_email_name") or &error ("unable to open url database: $db_email_name. Reason: $!");
while (<URL>) {
(/^$id$delim(.+)/o) or next;
chomp ($goto = $1);
last;
}
close URL;
$goto or &error ("Can't find link id: $id");

figuring the jump needs to look up the Contact Email.
My logic comes from my links.cfg file which includes

Code:
$db_email_name = "$db_script_path/data/email.db"; # PATH to email database.

The result I get is that it can't find link id.

One problem I see is that email.db has no data. That is probably why I get the can't find link id error.Unsure

Mu url.db has contains
1|mailto: omitted
2|mailto: omitted
3|mailto: omitted
4|mailto: omitted
up until I made some fields not required. Data is not being added as resources are being added.
...steven
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Thread Using URL for email and Title as name steven1214 11894 Jan 3, 2003, 7:21 PM
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esm 11689 Jan 3, 2003, 8:35 PM
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PerlFlunkie 11669 Jan 4, 2003, 12:36 AM
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steven1214 11737 Jan 4, 2003, 5:41 AM
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steven1214 11677 Jan 4, 2003, 4:16 PM
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steven1214 11642 Jan 5, 2003, 7:31 AM
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steven1214 11612 Jan 8, 2003, 8:15 PM
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PerlFlunkie 11626 Jan 8, 2003, 9:51 PM
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steven1214 11616 Jan 9, 2003, 7:26 PM
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esm 11582 Jan 9, 2003, 8:41 PM
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steven1214 11604 Jan 9, 2003, 8:57 PM
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PerlFlunkie 11586 Jan 9, 2003, 11:11 PM
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steven1214 4926 Jan 10, 2003, 5:21 PM
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steven1214 4923 Jan 10, 2003, 8:46 PM
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PerlFlunkie 4947 Jan 11, 2003, 1:25 AM
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fuzzy logic 4983 Jan 11, 2003, 2:50 AM
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steven1214 5002 Jan 11, 2003, 9:33 AM
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steven1214 5045 Jan 11, 2003, 2:56 PM
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steven1214 4901 Jan 11, 2003, 3:42 PM
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esm 11665 Jan 4, 2003, 5:35 PM
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stu2000 11632 Jan 6, 2003, 10:16 AM
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steven1214 4921 Jan 11, 2003, 4:52 PM
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PerlFlunkie 4902 Jan 12, 2003, 1:19 PM
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steven1214 4911 Jan 12, 2003, 1:37 PM
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Stealth 4901 Jan 12, 2003, 3:07 PM