First comment, take a look at CGI, It comes standard with any recent version of perl.
(The cgi-lib site may say it "has become the de facto standard library" for CGIs, but you'll aso notice that page was last updated in 1998.)

Second comment: whenever post to perlmonks, you should allways post your acctual code (or the smallest example you can write that causes hte same error), and the exact error you get -- it helps people help you

Third comment: if you must use cgi-lib.pl, please read the documentation and examples more carefully (&ReadParse doesn't return an array)

(Edited: i just realized that [CPAN://CGI] isn't as usefull of a link as I thought, so i updated it to point to the local copy of the CGI perldoc)

In reply to Re: strict by hossman
in thread strict problem by december

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