I thought I remembered there being a pragma or something that allowed that, but I'm probably misremembering.

Do you mean the invocation method defined at CGI.pm's Creating-a-new-query-object-from-an-input-file of CGI), which has the example:

To create an empty query, initialize it from an empty string or hash: 
my $empty_query = CGI->new("");
 
   -or-
 
my $empty_query = CGI->new({});

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This creates your query object without any parameters from the get-go.

Or, if you want to use the parameters at first so that you can extract information, but then delete them before outputting any HTML so they don't pre-populate forms, then you probably want to read Deleting-all-parameters of CGI to find $q->delete_all(); , which will delete the parameters at your whim.

In reply to Re^3: CGI.pm ignore URL GET query string parameters by pryrt
in thread CGI.pm ignore URL GET query string parameters by Danny

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