There are multiple ways you can tackle this

  1. Sessions
  2. Cookies
  3. Hidden inputs

Try something like this:

if ($q->param('submit1') eq 'submit1') {
    $index="Some val";
    print "DEBUG after 1st submit " . $index . "<br>";
    print $q->hidden('index', $index);
    print $q->submit(-name=>"submit2",
         -label=>"submit2") . " ",
}

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Later in the script, you can then 'recover' the value with $q->param('index')

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b10m

All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.

In reply to Re: Cascading CGI forms by b10m
in thread Cascading CGI forms by cmic

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