As an aside you should ditch the hand rolled param parser, see use CGI or die; for more details. You can replace all this: 

   if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET') {
         $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
   }  
   else {
         read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
   }


   @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;
         $FORM{$name} = $value;
   }

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With this which is much more reliable as well as shorter... 

use CGI 'Vars';
my %FORM = Vars();

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I would also recomend reading Use strict, warnings and diagnostics or die as well as New Monks

Update

Imported Vars() method specifically as it is not part of the ':standard' set as pointed out by Coruscate

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Need help with writing to db file by tachyon
in thread Need help with writing to db file by webstudioro

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