Hi All, I'm completely new to CGI scripting and I'm running into a difficult issue. I'm passing in values via the URL (http://www.blah.com?name=mike)

I have this variable as a field...
my $name = param("name");

I also have boolean statements that will issue different sub-routines based on user input...

if(param('action') eq 'Yes') {
      &delete; #this will delete the value in "name"
}
elsif(param('action') eq "No') {
      &keep; #this will keep the value in "name"
}
else {
      &print_form; #this prints the initial screen
}

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The print_form basically asks the user "Do you want to delete 'name'?" and it has 2 submit buttons, yes and no. I can't seem to keep the value that I put in the URL for name after a button is clicked. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

In reply to Keeping Values Perl CGI by Sylense

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