You seem to be a bit confused about how all the parts fit together. Your code is really CGI.pm perl pidgin HTML.

The plain old HTML would look something more like:

<FORM METHOD="POST"  ACTION="foo.cgi">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="foo"><P>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="bar">
<INPUT TYPE="submit">
</FORM>

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The HTML could either be generated by a script or reside in a static file somwhere.

Here's some code that prints a form and any results of previous submits. I didn't list a form action, becuase it defaults to the page it reside in.

#!perl

use CGI;
use strict;

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header(), 
      $q->start_html(), 
      $q->h1('Print some input.'),
      $q->startform(),
      $q->textfield('foo'),
      $q->p(),
      $q->textfield('bar'),
      $q->submit(),
      $q->endform();
      
# Print w/ space
print $q->param('foo').' '.$q->param('bar');  # You can't use "" to in
+terpolate param(), it's a function call, not a variable.
print $q->p();

# Print w/o space
print $q->param('foo').$q->param('bar');

print $q->end_html;

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TGI says moo

In reply to Re: CGI.pm, combining two strings by TGI
in thread CGI.pm, combining two strings by stuffy

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