$morneaten = $formdata{'$eaten'};

##</code><code>##

          
$nooneaten = $formdata{'eaten'};

##</code><code>##

 use CGI;
 my $query = CGI->new();
 ....
 $nooneaten = $query->param('eaten');

##</code><code>##

127.0.0.1 - - [05/Apr/2004:23:24:42 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/homeblood.pl?datedata=04%2F01%2F04&eaten=no&timedata=8%3A30&shift=am&readdata=110 
HTTP/1.1" 200 0 125 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007"