in reply to Read form values
than it is to cut can copy this into a script, or make turn it into a module. We are big on code re-use at the Monastery. People constantly complain that CGI.pm is too bloated, but it rarely really ever is. Besides, what happens when you suddenly need to parse upload fields?use CGI qw(param);
Even though you do handle multiple fields, your code is going to break on a string like foo=one%20field&foo=two%2Cfield which should only yield two elements for foo, not three. For that matter, i prefer to deal with a list instead of being handed a delimited string that i have to split myself.
UPDATE: observe how CGI.pm handles this:perl -MCGI=param -le"print for param(foo)" "foo=bar&foo=one%2Cfield"
jeffa
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