Submitting 'name' in the textfield of a sign-in page opens (points 'action'to) a second frameset page. I want to pass the 'name' to one result_frame. What I have now at the top of the frameset page is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl  -w

  $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;#Data coming in from
  my $buffer;
  read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);


print header();           
print "<html>";
print "<HEAD><SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>"; #<!--
print   "var name = 'Testing'"; #$buffer
print   "</SCRIPT></HEAD>"; #//--> 
print "<FRAMESET ROWS='45%,55%'>";
print   "<FRAMESET COLS = '75%,25%'>";
---------
print "</FRAMESET>";
print "</html>";

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As it stands, via a js function to a button on another GO_frame of the same frameset, which assigns a textfield in the result_frame to 'parent.name', I can get 'Testing' to appear in the textfield (which I can later hide).
My problem now is to get the 'name' passed in $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'},i.e. $buffer into this parent variable. ($buffer needs yet some regexp to extract 'name',but for now I just want to see something of $buffer in the result_ frame textfield.)

Somewhere on the web I saw:
"If you want to assign the value to a JavaScript variable, you'd do something like (in PHP): 

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
var counter = <?php echo $counter; ?>;
</SCRIPT>

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....which after evaluation (if counter was 10) should be: var counter = 10;"
WHAT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF THIS TRICK IN PERL?
Or, is there a better way to pass a variable from one page to a second frameset page such that it arrives to one particular frame of this frameset?

In reply to assigning a parent html (js) variable to a perl (cgi input) variable by lev

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