First thing you do is step up to your teacher and tell them that not using CGI (or at least a skimmed down version such as CGI::Simple) is completely idiotic. As is currently, your perl script is trying to access the form data through the GET method. It looks as though you tried to get through POST but that wasn't working. Basically, you need to change read($_, ...) to read read(STDIN, ...), but don't do that. Use CGI::Simple. Anything else is just wrong.

Update: The fact that this may be the first or second assignment in a class did not occur to me :). If this teacher is anyone decent, then it is probably as hardburn stated: it is most likely so you can see where POST data is being received from. After you have learned this area, I'm sure the teacher will not be against using a well-tested module to do the job securely. A quick thanks to hardburn for the insight.

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In reply to Re: Trouble getting a Perl script to run with an HTML form by Coruscate
in thread Trouble getting a Perl script to run with an HTML form by alarthame

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