I have this code from perldoc CGI::Cookies 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Cookie;
# Create new cookies and send them
my $cookie1 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'ID',-value=>123456);
my $cookie2 = new CGI::Cookie(-name=>'preferences',
                            -value=>{ font => 'Helvetica',
                                      size => 12 }
                           );
print header(-cookie=>[$cookie1,$cookie2]);
print start_html;
# fetch existing cookies
my %cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie;
my $id = $cookies{'ID'}->value;
print $id;
print end_html;

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but when I run the code I get the following error. I know what it means - I just dont understand why Im getting it. 
print $id;Set-Cookie: ID=123456; path=/
Set-Cookie: preferences=font&Helvetica&size&12; path=/
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 04:19:17 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S"><head><title>Untitled Document</title>
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at ./index.cgi line 17
+ (#1)
    (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by t
+he
    object reference or package name contains an undefined value.  Som
+ething
    like this will reproduce the error:
    
        $BADREF = undef;
        process $BADREF 1,2,3;
        $BADREF->process(1,2,3);
    
Uncaught exception from user code:
        Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at ./index.cgi
+ line 17.
 at ./index.cgi line 17

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Much thanks in advance Ted

In reply to setting cookies by tcf03

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