Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. Now I've pretty much mangled the code but it almost works. The only problem is that the insert statement is inserting a blank row each time with no data in each column. The insert code i'm using is: 
my $sth_ins = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO users (firstname, lastname, s
+tate, country) VALUES (?, ?, ? ,?)") or die "Couldn't insert the data
+";
$sth_ins->execute($FORM{firstname}, $FORM{lastname}, $FORM{state}, $FO
+RM{country});

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I was talking about this problem with a friend of mine who is vaguely familiar with Perl and he mentioned that $FORM{value} was the only way to retrieve the data from 
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

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Is there another way to do it or am I just overlooking something the way it is now?

In reply to Re^4: inserting and showing data from an MS Access database by Anonymous Monk
in thread inserting and showing data from an MS Access database by Anonymous Monk

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