Hi Monks!
I have a form submiting data to a perl script and I am trying to read the data sent (JSON), but cant make it work, any help?
This is the jquery code sending serialized data to the perl script: 
<script type="text/javascript" >

$(function() {
$(".submit").click(function() {

var formData = $("#reply-form").serialize();
alert(formData);

$.ajax({
         type: "post",
         url: "code.pl?test=test",
         cache: false,
         data: formData,
         contentType: "application/json; charset=UTF-8",
         dataType: "json",
         success: function(data) //onSuccess,
          {
              alert(data);
          },
         error: function(xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
                        console.log('status: ' + xhr.status);
                        console.log('thrownError:' + thrownError);
                }
 });


});

// return false to prevent normal browser submit and page navigation 
return false;

});

</script>

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Here is a simple Perl script to read the data sent I am trying: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header("application/json");

my $data = decode_json($q->param('dataString'));

print Dumper $data;

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Read JSON data from a form by Anonymous Monk

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