Most methods in CGI.pm have several ways of passing parameters:

• As 'numbered' parameters (NOT using a leading dash)

  $q->method($param1,$param2);
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• As named parameters (with leading dash)

  $q->method(-name1 => $param1, -name2 => $param2)
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• As named parameters (with a hashref)

  $q->method( { name1 => $param1, name2 => $param2 } )
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Which one you want is up to you, but you cannot mix them, hence the insistance on a leading dash in variant 2.

Hope this clears it up :-)
Joost.

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            is error-free and immune from user input.
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