Are you not using CGI because you want to know how's the guts of all that stuff?

Then you should dump all your environment variables and what you read from STDIN into some file and examine it.

As for POST, I doubt that this works: 

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

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Otherwise, just use CGI and have that module give you the content of the textarea: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
use strict;

my $q = CGI->new;

print $q->header;

my $text = $q->param('comments');
my $words = scalar(split (/ /, $text));

#Give output
print <<END;
<html><head>
<title>Guest book Result</title>
<body>
<h1 align="center">Guest book Results</h1>

<br>
Comments : $text
<br>
Words: $words

</body>
</html>
END

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Cleaner code, less hassle.

cheers,
--shmem 

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In reply to Re: Taking Variable from Form Entry Using CGI by shmem
in thread Taking Variable from Form Entry Using CGI by sdslrn123

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