Don't want duplicate cookies with the same name

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

Without using CGI.pm, can you add to one cookie without another random cookie being created with the same name?
I'm resetting a cookie over and over and sometimes it creates duplicate cookies and sometimes not...

Comment on Don't want duplicate cookies with the same name

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Re: Don't want duplicate cookies with the same name by Gloom (Monk) on Jan 23, 2001 at 20:57 UTC
Store your cookies in a hash, sorted by name. I think it's a good solution to disallow duplicate entry. You can also verify if a cookie already exits with the exists statment.	[reply]
Re: Don't want duplicate cookies with the same name by Anonymous Monk on Dec 02, 2002 at 12:04 UTC
test Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]