Hi there. No offense, but your code is broken. You should be using the CGI.pm module. I detail the reasons at lesson 2 of my CGI course. As for your comments about HTML::TokeParser::Simple, since I'm the author of that module, I can guarantee you that this module is not required by CGI.pm, so if running that script results in a "Can't locate HTML::TokeParser::Simple in @INC" error, then you have something seriously wrong with your system. Try running the script from the command line with this:

    perl -e myscript.pl

Since you're not passing in any parameters, it probably won't work, but if you don't see the HTML::TokeParser::Simple error, then the error is not being generated by your code, but probably by something in your Web server configuration.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

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

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