I would make sure you are using a post method. In the form tag put method=post action="script2.pl">. Because you seem to have left that out. Another thing I would try is after

use CGI;
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create this object

my $q = new CGI;
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then grabbing the fields would look like

my foo = $q->param('foo');
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That is the way it is documented at CPAN. It looks like you did that on the first script and not on the second one.

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