I can easily pass data from form to script with.

   print <<END_ERR_HTML;
<HTML>
<form method=POST action=viewdata.cgi>
<font size="4" color="#FF0000">Enter data here.</font>
<input type=text name="handle" size=30>
<input type=submit VALUE="View Data">
</form>
</html>
END_ERR_HTML

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And retrieve with
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
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;
$value =~ s/<([^>]|\n)*>//g;
$value =~ s/\r//g;
$value =~ s/\n/<br>/sgm;
$POST{$name} = $value;
}

@scald = ($POST{'handle'});

$data = $scald[0];
print "$data";

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But what if I have this simple little script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$now = name;
$wanted = somedata;

print "Location: open.cgi?id=$now\n\n";
exit;

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In this case I have no form to work with
How on earth can I pass $wanted to the second script open.cgi
And retrieve it in script open.cgi
I have retrieved $wanted by sending it to a database first and
Then retrieving it from the database in the second script.
Surely that is the long way round.
I find the simplest little things are the most perplexing.

In reply to Passing data from script to script. by nasa

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