my (%searchField, $buffer, $pair, @pairs); read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{ 'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer); foreach $pair (@pairs){ my ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair); $value =~ tr/+/ /; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-f0-9][a-fA-f0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $name =~ tr/+/ /; $name =~ s/%([a-fA-f0-9][a-fA-f0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $searchField{ $name } = $value; } return %searchField;