Hello! I'm trying to pass parameters from one perl-script to the other. The code is as follows: 
#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
use DBI;
$,="\t";
use CGI qw(:all escape);
$username=param("username");
$password=param("password");
$condition;
$cond;

$db=DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:administration") or die"\n Error($DBI::err
+):$DBI::errstr\n";

$aquery="select pass from password where username='$username'";



$a=$db->prepare($aquery);
$a->execute();
while(@result=$a->fetchrow())
{foreach $result(@result)
{
if ($result eq $password) 
{$condition=1;
}


}
}





if($condition==0)
{print"content-type:text/html\n\n";
print"<html>\n";
print"<body bgcolor=\"#990000\"><font color=\"white\">";
print "Sorry but your password does not match your username. Please tr
+y again. <br><form action=\"login.pl\" method=\"post\" target=\"mainF
+rame\">Username: <input type=\"text\" name=\"username\" size=\"15\"><
+br><br><br>
Password: <input type=\"password\" name=\"password\" size=\"15\"><br><
+br><br><center>
<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"></form></center>" ;

}
else 
{
print redirect(-location=>'http://localhost/cgi-bin/de.pl?username=$us
+ername'); 
}

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I want the second file "de.pl" to get this parameter and do something with it. It works fine when I put in the first script username=pat but not when I put username=$username. What am I doing wrong? Thank you

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