Thanks for your replies. I didn't post code initially because I didn't think people would appreciate me dumping the problem directly onto them. But here's the relevant code:

Immediately after the relevant beginning lines, I create three hashes I'll use. %INPUT is the one in question. I haven't got it far enough to know if the other two work. We all know %ENV, and %CFG has values from a config file I load.

my (%INPUT,%CFG,%ENV);

To clean up my "main" program, I dump off the initialization of %INPUT to a subroutine, which I call immediately after my variable declarations (save a few comments in between):

my ($buffer,$name,$value,@pairs,$pair);
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
        $name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        $value =~ tr/+/ /;
        value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
        $INPUT{$name} = $value;
        print "\$INPUT{$name} = $value<br>";
}

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That last line was put in to help me see if any of the values are printed. I expected it to at least print "$INPUT{} = " (null for the actual values), but in fact, it didn't print anything.

Even if I put this code immediately after the above "my (...)" code, it still doesn't give me any output.

In reply to Some code by aeshirey
in thread use strict seems to hose my code by aeshirey

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