Okay, I am kinda stuck. I am now experimenting with CGI on Activestate Perl in Windows and have got an Apache server. I am trying to use the info entered in the comments box so that for every word entered I can take this as a variable to use in a separate program. Is this possible? Thanks for any kind of help.

My HTML Page, guestbook.html: 
<html><head>
<title>Guestbook</title>
</head>
<body>

<form action="/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl" method="get">
<table>
<tr><td>Comments</td><td>
<TEXTAREA name="comments" rows="10" cols="32"></TEXTAREA></td></tr>
</table><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Add Entry">
</form>

</body>
</html>

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My Program, guestbook.pl: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

my $query_string = "";
#Get the input
if ($ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} eq 'POST') {
read(STDIN, $query_string, $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH});
} else {
$query_string = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
}
##### We will remove this
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "Query String is \n<br> $query_string";
##### We will remove this

# Split the name-value pairs
@pairs = split(/&/, $query_string);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {
   ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

   #Converting Hex to English.
   $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
   $value =~ tr/+/ /;

   $FORM{$name} = $value;
    
}

@thanks = split (/ /, $FORM{'comments'});
foreach $thank (@thanks){
$FORM{$thank} = $thank;
}

#Give output
print <<END;

Content-Type: text/html\n\n
<html><head>
<title>Guest book Result</title>
<body>
<h1 align="center">Guest book Results</h1>

<br>
Comments : $FORM{'comments'}
<br>
Words: $FORM{$thank}

</body>
</html>
END

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In reply to Taking Variable from Form Entry Using CGI by sdslrn123

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