send form results by email

I have a cgi script written in perl. I have a subroutine which prints out the results from my form data

sub print_details{
print "\nWe have recieved your order for a $pizza_size pizza with ";
&pizza_toppings;
}
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Since I want the same results to appear when I send an email, how do I call the subroutine? I tried print SENDMAIL &print_details; as the code below. But, this has no effect.

# send e-mail
my $sendmail;
$sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
open(SENDMAIL , "| $sendmail") ||die("unable to open");
print SENDMAIL  "From: $txt_email\n";
print SENDMAIL  "To: abc123@hotmail.com\n";
print SENDMAIL  "Reply-To: abc123@hotmail.com \n"; 
print SENDMAIL  "Subject: YOUR PIZZA ORDER\n" ;
print SENDMAIL &print_details;
close (SENDMAIL);
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Any suggestions...

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Re: send form results by email
by jasonk (Parson) on Mar 12, 2003 at 16:40 UTC

Since you didn't escape the @ in your email addresses (and since you didn't use -w which would have told you this), the string @hotmail is being seen as an array, so your email is getting sent out with these headers:

From: somebody@somewhere.com
To: abc123.com
Reply-To abc123.com
Subject: YOUR PIZZA ORDER

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

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Re: Re: send form results by email

by Anonymous Monk on Mar 12, 2003 at 16:46 UTC

print SENDMAIL  "To: abc123\@hotmail.com\n";
print SENDMAIL  "Reply-To: abc123\@hotmail.com \n";
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Re: send form results by email
by Tomte (Priest) on Mar 12, 2003 at 16:52 UTC

sub print_details {
  my $fh = shift;
  print $fh "We have recieved your order for a $pizza_size pizza with 
+";
  pizza_toppings();
 } 

open my $sendmail, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t" or die ("no sendmail??");
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print $sendmail "Subject: ...\n\n";
print_details($sendmail);
close $sendmail;
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Just make sure you call print_details everywhere with a filehandle as argument.
If this doesn't help you, read the docs I pointed you to, it's all there. ( and here too: open, perlfaq filehandle )

regards,
tomte

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