I'm a Perl newbie running IndigoPerl on an Apache server on my Windows system. I also now have CGI.pm running, but despite viewing Stein's webpage, I don't know how to use it. I think it's because I don't understand some basic stuff:

1) Is CGI.pm a scripting tool (akin to an HTML text editor, only for Perl), or just a collection of script modules that I'm to insert as needed in my scripts? If it's the former, how do I start up this tool; if it's the latter, am I to simply cut & paste, or is there an importing function or some such?

2) Is CGI.pm just another (albeit 'best in it's class') collection of scripts, or is it the 'standard' for Perl programming, replacing Berkeley's cgi-lib? I've searched 'CGI library' on search engines, but haven't found much of substance.

3) What exactly is a 'module' and how is it different from any other pre-written code I might add into my script?

Thanks.

In reply to How do I use CGI.pm? by garyj

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