I prefer using 
use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI::->new();
my %FORM = $cgi->Vars();

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instead of 
read(STDIN, $input, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

    # split the input
    @pairs = split(/&/, $input);

    # split the name/value pairs
    foreach $pair (@pairs) {

    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

    $name =~ tr/+/ /;
    $name =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~ s/<([^>]|\n)*>//g;

  $FORM{$name} = $value;
    }

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because it is much more flexible and secure. What happens with your code if there are multiple checkboxes with the same name? What if a value contains the char = ?

If you worry about the overhead of loading the CGI-Module: most often it doesn't matter at all. If it mattered, you could use CGI_Lite instead.

Btw: is it possible for you to directly work with the hash %FORM instead of converting everything to a scalar variable?

Best regards,
perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

In reply to Re: Changes to Quiz script by strat
in thread Changes to Quiz script by pip

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