Thank you for your replies... I want a simple textarea where the users can paste in many serial numbers (either in a column or row with a space/s sepating them). They click submit and the CGI takes each entry as a separate entity instead of one long one. I admit it I am a CGI rookie here.... I need a snipet or 2 to see what you are saying. If I show you what I have for the current code to accept the <input type text> entries. Could you suggest the best method to read a textarea instead of multiple text fields. Feel free to alter this code . Thank you in advance

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {
    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
    foreach $pair (@pairs) {
       ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
       $value =~ tr/+/ /;
       $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

     $FORM{$name} = $value;
    }
   &process;
} 

#The following displays barcode

sub process {
($name =  $FORM{name});
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more html & print script would be below here Once again I thank you gc