Assuming your input is well-behaved, you might pop all of it into a hash with something as simple as 

# updated -- davorg noticed that $-> ... should be $_=>
my %input = map { $_=>$cgi->param($_) } $cgi->param();

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Warning: this won't work if you have multiple fields with the same name (that returns a list, not a scalar, as this code assumes -- if this is an issue, it can be dealt with, but I'll assume the simple case). Alternately, you can use the backwards-compatbility ReadParse function: 

CGI::ReadParse();
# input values now in hash named "%in"

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Anyhow, once it's all into the hash, you can do a 

foreach my $key (keys %input) {
 $input{$key} =~ tr/*//d;
 # or whatever makes sense
}

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HTH. 

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'

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In reply to Re: form parsing by arturo
in thread form parsing by Rotomola

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