I'm prepared for any downvoting for a request like this but at this point

What kind of community places views asking for an example of something as negative?

Can someone show me a very basic snippet for checking to see if a cookie exists, if it doesn't print a form and use whatever data they present from the form as the cookie?

Certainly, assuming you know how to print out HTML documents, Using CGI.pm you would do the following:

use CGI;

my $q      = new CGI;
my $cookie = $q->cookie(-name=>'form_info') || '';

if ($cookie) {
    # you have the cookie, validate the info or whatever now
} elsif ($q->param('form_info')) {
    # you've received the form info
    # now set the cookie
    my $cookie_to_send = $q->cookie(-name=>'form_info');
    # print out header
    print $q->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
    # print out HTML header, then html document
} else {
    # no cookie or form params received
    # print out HTML form
}

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Hope that helps :)

In reply to Re: A rotten cookie by Anonymous Monk
in thread A rotten cookie by sulfericacid

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