Please consider using CGI.pm (or CGI::Simple) for your CGI processing needs. For one reason, cgi-lib.pl, which you seem to be using or emulating, has been obsolete and deprecated for some time.

There should be no reason to need help with parsing form entries from the POST or GET results manually. If you're rolling your own solution for anything more than fun or education, you should already know how to do it as well as the common, documented, and well-supported module. If you don't know how to do it as well as CGI.pm does it, then please use CGI.pm or CGI::Simple and we as a community can focus on supporting that.

In reply to Re: Question On Forms and MS Word by mr_mischief
in thread Question On Forms and MS Word by njweatherman

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