CGI::Vars doesn't return anything

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I do use CGI qw(Vars....), and when I call Vars it doesn't return a anything, how come? Why don't I get any errors?

bash-2.05$ perl -MCGI -e 'print $CGI::revision,"\n"'
$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.5 1998/12/06 10:19:48 lstein Exp $
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Re: CGI::Vars doesn't return anything by mattr (Curate) on Aug 06, 2001 at 14:24 UTC
I think you are looking for this usage (courtesy of the CGI man page: `use CGI ':cgi-lib'; $params = Vars;` [download] As for errors, perhaps you should use strict;	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: CGI::Vars doesn't return anything by Anonymous Monk on Aug 06, 2001 at 15:26 UTC
are you telling me that use CGI qw(Vars);# wouldn't work? looks like valid syntaxt to me (but i have been wrong often). I am using strict and warnings. Is it just the nature of CGI (somewhat unlike other modules) that it does not throw errors?	[reply]
Re: CGI::Vars doesn't return anything by snowcrash (Friar) on Aug 06, 2001 at 14:34 UTC
according to the cgi_docs the Vars method was added in version 2.50... as to why no error occures, i couldn't get a copy of CGI.pm as old as 1.5 at CPAN... but I would consider upgrading to the newest version anyway. snowcrash //////	[reply]