I am using a form parsing routine I picked up here at PM without success. I believe I must have misunderstood what it is doing I thought it was doing the equivalent of my $variable = $q->param( 'variable' ); for each param it receives but when I try to print values 2 things happen:
1)The script dies if the variable wasn't declared with my. I thought the  foreach my $str (@names) was taking care of the declarations.
2) The params are undef when I try to print them (even inside the parse_form sub. However, if I add lines like 
    my $date = $q->param( 'date' );
    my $filet = $q->param( 'filet');

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I get my params and their values. Will someone please point out whatever it is that I fail to comprehend about this process.
TIA
jg
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

use lib qw(/home/nolaflash/www/local_mods);

use CGI ':standard';
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser /;
use CGI::Pretty qw( :html3 );


my $q = CGI->new();

if ( $q->param() ) {
    parse_form();
}

sub parse_form {
    my $sr;
    my @names=$q->param;
    foreach my $str (@names) {
        $sr->{$str} =$q->param($str);
    }

    print $q->header,start_html," @names $action $time $date filet = $
+filet",end_html;
    exit;
}

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