Hi everyone! I am trying to use CGI for the first time and I am wondering what it is I have to do to have the value of a large text box sent to a CGI script where it can be parsed and place each line in an array element. I would like it so that each line of the text box starts with a directory.
Example:
/vobs/multimedia
/vobs/testdirectory
this would write each line into a two element array. Right now I have my program reading from a text file into an array with 
open (READ_BR, "br_sample.txt") or
die ("Unable to open br_sample.txt!\n");
my @BR_paths = <READ_BR>;
chomp @BR_paths;
close (READ_BR);

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But I am unsure of how to get the value of the form into the CGI script. I hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance!

In reply to use CGI Question by Anonymous Monk

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