cgi-lib.pl question

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I'm embarrassed to say I've been working w/PERL as a secondary tool for about 2 yrs. and don't know all about advanced (intermediate even) data strucs. All I know is that when I use cgi-lib.pl, I can get at my HTML text items by refing $in{'NAME'} Being the lazy programmer that I am, I was wondering if there was a slick way to automatically assign all these "in" cgi fields to common scalars easily, e.g. if I had a form containing HTML form text items NAME, ADDR then have $NAME and $ADDR vars auto style, instead of having to type $in{'NAME'} and in{'ADDR'} Thanks a mil, Rob

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Re: cgi-lib.pl question by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 01, 2000 at 14:26 UTC
Well, you'd need to be running this code without `use strict` or `-w` because it goes against all kinds of best practices (symbolic refs, undeclared vars), but you could do someting like this... `foreach (keys %in) { $$_ = in{$_}; }` [download] But I think that all in all that is a very bad idea. If you were using `CGI.pm` instead of `cgi-lib.pl` you could use the `import_names` function which does something similar. Of course, if it's just the amount of typing that you're concerned about you can save two keystrokes on each hash element by typing `$in{NAME}` instead of `$in{'NAME'}`. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000 <http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>	[reply] [d/l]
Re: cgi-lib.pl question by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 01, 2000 at 20:48 UTC
Generally, the answer to any question that contains `cgi-lib.pl` is "please start using `CGI.pm` instead!" -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
RE: Re: cgi-lib.pl question by BBQ (Curate) on Jul 02, 2000 at 06:35 UTC
merlyn has the answers, as always. But just to make things a bit more easier for you, the simple way to get started on your transition from cgi-lib.pl to CGI.pm, is to use the compatibility mode. For instance: `use CGI; CGI::ReadParse(*in);` [download] Voilá! You have your good ol' %in... #!/home/bbq/bin/perl # Trust no1!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: cgi-lib.pl question by prodevel (Scribe) on Jul 02, 2000 at 16:40 UTC
You guys are rock stars and I am most certainly humbled. If ever any native Oracle questions, i.e. non-DBI arise, I am definitely able to help. All areas including SQL, PL/SQL and DBA/Architechture issues, I would be most happy to oblige. Many thanks	[reply]