I need to create a HTML form that looks something like this:

<form action="contest.pl" method="POST">
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Student Information</legend>
                <ol>
                    <li><label>Full name: <input type="text" name="nam
+e"/></label></li>
                    <li><label>Grade level: <select name="gl">
                            <option>9th</option>
                            <option>10th</option>
                            <option>11th</option>
                            <option>12th</option>
                        </select> 
                    </label></li>
                </ol>
        </fieldset>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit you Request!"/>
    <input type="reset" value="Reset"/>
</form>

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I typed up the HTML, but then I couldn't figure out how to have a perl script access this information. To access say, the name, do I need to put:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print $name;

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Shouldn't that print the name that was submitted by the user in the HTML form? Or am I totally missing something. I'm pretty new to perl so I don't know much. However, in the end I want to be able to have the user input their information and then print out a request with their information on it. If anyone knows how I could do this, I would greatly appreciate it.

In reply to Web Form with Perl by DOSUser101

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