in reply to CGI Help

with this code snippet $q is set to "new CGI" is this just laying the ground work for the html part of the script that is running?
my $q = new CGI; is syntactically equivalent to my $q = CGI->new; It creates a CGI object and stores it in $q, and all methods are called on that object. See perlobj for more details.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^2: CGI Help
by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 10, 2016 at 20:32 UTC

    The OP should note that the new CGI (indirect syntax) variant is discouraged because it can be confusing to read by both humans and the interpreter.

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