I've got an html page consisting of a form with various types of input (a select box and a few text fields). I'm writing a perl program to parse the input of this form but I need the script to be dynamic; that is, I need it to work the same with various forms (basically, I'm opening a text file and writing whatever was input to it). I figure the best way to do this is to create an array with each of the variables and their corresponding values in it but I'm not quite sure how to do this. I've taken the variables from the form input: 

    
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {
     read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
     my @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
} else {
     &error;
}

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..., but now how do I make an associative array that holds each of the variable names and its corresponding value? (like color => blue, name => john, etc., or would there be an even easier way? remember, I won't know what the variables are when the script runs; it could be from any form, each of which has a different number/differently named variables) Thanks

In reply to Pushing w/ an associative array? by Anonymous Monk

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