Hi:

Im trying to make a generic Form Handler script, (so the script will not know the field names).

I downloaded many free readily available Form Handler scripts just to see how they handle the collection of "names" and "values" from the HTML form.

All of them have a parsing routine.

But my script doesnt work with a parsing routine since Im using:

use CGI
$q = new CGI;

So basically if I wanted to use file names I would do this:

$Whatever = $q->param('Whatever');

But the thing is that the script is supposed to be generic.. in other words handle any number of field names not knowing the field name previuosly.

I found a small snippet of code to get any info coming to a script

while ($line = <STDIN>) {
chomp $line;
#do whatever must be done
}

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But I understand this is used to received data from a file.

Is there a comparable snippet of code to received any data from a form without a parsing routine..??

In reply to STDIN ..??? by virtualweb

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