Hello, I am attempting to understand how I can read and print a single variable of form data from an SHTML web page into a small CGI script(Below)
Producing HTML that prints (what ever the value of 'Firstname' is)'is the value of $Firstname'. Thanks In the begining Let us first assume that there was nothing to begin with. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header(), 
        start_html(-title=>"CGI.pm Example Script"), 
                                 h1('Hello World!'), 
                       'is the value of $Firstname', 
        end_html(); 

exit (0);

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In reply to Reading form data and printing variables using CGI.pm by cal

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