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Sure. Read up on and make liberal use of the CGI perl module -- it allows you to retrieve the information intact quite magically as shown below... 
$usertext = $cgi->param('sometextarea');

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RE: RE: splitting question
by takshaka (Friar) on May 22, 2000 at 00:26 UTC
    This cannot be overstated. Until you know why you don't need CGI.pm, always use CGI.pm.
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