reading value from html to cgi

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Re: reading value from html to cgi by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 23, 2014 at 18:31 UTC
Your code and question are a bit unclear to me. You say that you read "name", but `$cgi->param('firstname')` is documented to return the value of the input field with name `firstname`. Please post a complete program that shows the problem you have. Also, explain a bit longer what value you expect `$firstname` to contain. Also explain what you mean by "read value" and how this is different from what is in `$firstname`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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Re: reading value from html to cgi by aitap (Curate) on Nov 23, 2014 at 19:24 UTC
Fetch the parameter list as a hash and reverse it or grep its values.	[reply]
Re^2: reading value from html to cgi by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2014 at 10:30 UTC
The documentation you linked explains the caveats, but its easier to simply avoid them to begin with :), use CGI->param instead of CGI->Vars , CGI->Vars has caveats , its broken by design	[reply]