yay! CGI.pm! :) What you want is:

print hidden(-name=>'hey',-value=>'you');

or just 
print hidden('hey,'you');

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Because the first two fields default to name then value. You should check out the documentation for all sorts of amazing stuff it can do.

Also, never input plain HTML in your script. Usually, thats where all the bugs are because maybe you forgot to backslash a quote:
print "<input type="text">";

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Would obviously give an error as would many other things. Basically, always use CGI.pm and I am glad that you already are :)

Almost a Perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian
I encourage you to email me

In reply to Re: passing information through hidden fields using CGI.pm by damian1301
in thread passing information through hidden fields using CGI.pm by markjugg

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