Regarding your comment, "not sure why you are manually altering your query string", . . .a fair question. In fact the authors (ibid., p.95) comment "It may seem odd that you would ever want to modify parameters yourself, . . .Setting parameters is useful for many reasons, but especially when assigning default values to fields in forms."

Thanks for your suggestion. Looks like it will work. Still, I wonder why such a method function is not workable within CGI.pm (module). I'm new to Perl modules, etc., and I wonder if I'm just not "getting it?"

There may even (probably) be a better approach to my immediate purpose. I've designed a module that will handle single transactions: Inquire, Update, Insert and Delete, on a MySQL database table. The module is totally generic, and will accept a parameter list consisting of $host_name, $db_name, $userid, $passwd, $table, and $pkey. To wit, I have also created a module that copies-in these "standard" parameters, and optionally contains a subroutine that will print the six hidden fields that can become parameters in the query string. My concept is analogous to using copy-books in COBOL, the #include in RPG's, or the include etc.h (file) in C. What I've discovered it that if a parent pgm-A (that does not specify a value for $table) calls child pgm-B, and this child makes the decision to specify the Vendor Master Table (in my application, the user has transversed through a host server/database login, and has made an application selection from a menu of business applications), then it is apparently difficult to insert the literal value "vndr_mstr" into the query string already containing the parameter, "&table=", i.e., (NULL), that will eventually be presented to my DBI_API.pm module.

In reply to Re^2: Modifying Parameter Values w/CGI.pm by rtwingfield
in thread Modifying Parameter Values w/CGI.pm by rtwingfield

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