Very new to Perl here..so excuse my lack of understanding on this fundamental. Been screwing around with Perl on my computer for a few weeks.. finally decided to see if I could get a CGI script to manipulate data from a form. Can get the data from the query string (the form method is just GET, so I wasn't bothering to check if it's POST or GET...). Here's the code: 
print("Content-Type: text/html\n\n");
print("<HTML><BODY>");

$QSTRING = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
$QSTRING =~ s/\+/ /g;
print("<P align=center><B>(\$)QSTRING</B>: $QSTRING</P>");

# Split the $QSTRING by the ampersand and assign the parts to @QSTRING
@QSTRING = split(/&/,$QSTRING);
# Check the values in @QSTRING
print("<P align=center><B>(@)QSTRING</B>:");
foreach $QSPart(@QSTRING)
{
    print("&nbsp;$QSPart");
}
print("</P>");

foreach $Part(@QSTRING)
{
    %FormData = split(/=/, $Part);
}

# Attempt to print out the names and values of the QSTRING....
@InputNames = keys(%FormData);
foreach $InputName(@InputNames)
{
    print("<P align=center><B>$InputName</B>: $FormData{$InputName}</P
+>");
}

print("</BODY></HTML>");

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Not sure why, but only the last name/value pair are placed in the hash. for example, the form had 3 inputs. name, age, and word (for testing purposes..heh). upon submitting the form to the script with the values .cgi?Name=my+name&Age=12&Word=xyzzy ...checking the values in the scalar & the array, things come out fine. when checking the values in the hash, i only get... Word: xyzzy ...which would be the last things in the query string. Why this comes out this way I do not know. Maybe some else does? Like I said... Only been workign with Perl for a few weeks, and please excuse how verbose this is.

In reply to A Beginner Apparently Sucks With Hashes... by relayeddeaction

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