You get exactly the same result if you do this: 
my %webobj = (       
                'template' => ,
                'minscale' => 2
            );

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because there is no param(template), so it's like you said 'template' => nothing, comma, minscale, I guess.

I suppose this is somehow different to doing it with an undefined variable -- that way you'd get undef as the value for 'template'.

I know it's daggy and old-fashioned, but if I'm in a hurry, I just do this: 

CGI::ReadParse();

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which puts everything into a hash called %in. That was only included in CGI.pm for backward, perl 4/cgi-lib compatibility, but I like it. It does what you're trying to do here, right?
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M-J D

In reply to Re: •Re: Puzzling CGI behavior by Cody Pendant
in thread Puzzling CGI behavior by punkish

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