Hello monks,

I have recently rearranged the code in a fairly large script I have been working on for some time. This change was neccessary to solve some syntax errors but since this change I have been getting this error. Following is a sample of the overall script (at least what I think is relavant).

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

sub readPostInput() {
    my (%searchField, $buffer, $pair, @pairs);
    if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST')
    {
        read (STDIN,$buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
        @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
        foreach $pair (@pairs)
        {
            my ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
            $value =~ tr/+/ /;
            $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/e
+g;
            $name =~ tr/+/ /;
            $name =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg
+;
            $searchField{ $name } = $value;
        }
    }
}

my %postInputs = readPostInput();

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Complete :: $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'}";

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It seems that environment variables such as REQUEST_METHOD, CONTENT_LENGTH, and REMOTE_ADDR are not being defined. I have tried running this from IE and from a command line. This script outputs the following:

Use of uninitialized value in string eq at test2.pl line 10.
Odd number of elements in hash assignment at test2.pl line 26.
Content-type: text/html

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at test2.pl 
+line 29.
Complete ::

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Please, help, and thank you in advance.

In reply to $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} undefined? by Lamont85

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