First of this is my first real attempt into data manipulation so please bear with me. I have a script that so far takes some data from a form using get and manipulates it to produce the output of the data in the way that I want so far.

What I want to do next is take one of they key/values and merge it to the other key/values that I have outputing. Basically I want the following output

output1 = on
output2 = on
output3 = on
announcement = test

to show up as follows:

output1 = test
output2 = test
output3 = test

I know how to manipuate the date to remove =on, but my issue is what is the best way and how do I take the announcement = test and then merge it to the output1 key. Below is my script so far. Thanks in advance for your help.

#!/usr/bin/perl

    # Read in text
    $method = $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'};

    if ($method eq "GET")
    {
        $buffer= $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
    }else {
        read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    }

    # Split information into name/value pairs
    my @pairs = split (/&/, $buffer);

    foreach $pair (@pairs)
    {
       ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([\dA-Fa-f][\dA-Fa-f])/pack ("C", hex ($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
    }

print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n";
print "<html>";
print "<head>";
print "<title>CGI Program</title>";
print "</head>";
print "<body>";

foreach $name (sort keys(%FORM))
{
    print "$name = $FORM{$name}<BR>\n";
}

print "</body>";
print "</html>";

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