How is the HTML form being generated initially? You don't show us what you're redirecting it back to. If that page is generated with CGI.pm's HTML generation methods, then the form inputs will be automatically pre-filled with the values you pass to that script, assuming the names match. Otherwise, if for example it's a static HTML page, you will have to do it yourself. Take the HTML you have and turn it into a template, using perhaps HTML::Template or the Template Toolkit. Each place you have an input tag or textarea, put in the appropriate template tag to fill in the value. Then from your CGI script, invoke the template passing in the form values. The docs for the modules I mentioned give plenty of examples.

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