in reply to Puzzling CGI behavior

Your question has already been answered, but i felt inclined to query why one would use a variable named %webobj without blessing it. You don't need to do this - you could simply do something like: 
my %webojb;
$webobj{template} = param('template');
$webobj{minscale} = param('minscale');

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without having to resort to transitory variables. But, here is some code that uses Class::MethodMaker: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(param);

my $webobj = WebObj->new();
$webobj->template(param('template'));
$webobj->minscale(param('minscale'));

print $webobj->template,$/;
print $webobj->minscale,$/;

package WebObj;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Class::MethodMaker
   new     => 'new',
   get_set => [qw(template minscale)],
;

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Try running this code with the following args 
./webobj.cgi 'template=foo'
./webobj.cgi 'template=foo&minscale=bar'
./webobj.cgi 'template=foo&minscale=bar&minscale=baz'
Personally, i wouldn't even bother with using %webobj unless i knew that it would need to be passed around a lot. I generally use HTML::Template as my 'object container', if you will. ;)

jeffa

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