I read something about using use CGI ':cgi-lib'; instead of use CGI qw(:standard) to be able to get the parameter list as a hash using Vars, but I don't understand that.

But in your code, you have:

use CGI qw(:standard :cgi);

Try changing it to:

use CGI ':cgi-lib';

Update: I should probably explain what this actually does... see use. Basically, arguments after the package name to 'use' are passed in as arguments to import ... items starting with a colon are calls to load specific sets of functions, as opposed to a single function name. You may want to also read up on Exporter, although CGI doesn't actually use it.

In reply to Re: Function-oriented style CGI accessing form parameters by jhourcle
in thread Function-oriented style CGI accessing form parameters by hmbscully

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