If you want your CGI called with "search.pl?term" that's fine... all you have to do is $q->param(keywords) in your CGI to access whatever follows the "?" in your URL. If someone calls your script like this "search.pl?field1=term" then the "term" value will appear in $q->param(field1). Just set some if/then's to decide which is which, maybe like this: 
if ($q->param(keywords)) {
   $field = $q->param(keywords);
} else {
   $field = $q->param(field1);
}

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Or maybe I don't understand what you want. The 3 main ways of getting data into CGI.pm are via ISINDEX, POST, and GET. Since POST and GET both boil down to key/value pairs they are (to CGI.pm at least) interchangeable. ISINDEX is just a value without a key and is handled in param(keywords). Now why can't you use param again?

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Clean URLs and CGI.pm by Trimbach
in thread Clean URLs and CGI.pm by swiftone

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