is it possible to use a CGI script to create other CGI scripts?

"What can I do to prevent the current CGI script from interpreting the cgi code I want to write to the new script? "

you dont have to do anything. As long as your CGI code is within " and you have escaped any special chars you are safe.

$cgi_code = 'Your CGI code goes here;
$ signs get ignored because of the single quotes
Double quotes ignored "too".
End of CGI script';


print NEW_CGI_SCRIPT $cgi_code;

flahertd,

were you able to find a solution to your problem? if so, pl. let this forum know of the solution.

thanks

First, thanks for the suggestions!

What I did was a mixture of both -

I put some of the code within single
quotes, so that no special characters would be interpreted:

$cgi_code = '#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$ENV{"PATH"} .=
":/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib/perl";
require "/path/to/cgi-bin/cgi.pl";';

print NEW_CGI_SCRIPT $cgi_code;

Then more code that I needed interpreted, I put in double quotes, backslashing the stuff I didn't want interpreted - it looks pretty ugly, but it does the job:

print NEW_CGI_SCRIPT "\$filename = \"$filepath_I_need_interpreted\";";
           
So then in NEW_CGI_SCRIPT I would end up with:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$ENV{"PATH"} .= ":/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib/perl";
require "/path/to/cgi-bin/cgi.pl";
$filename = "/path/to/file";