in reply to Input value in textbox

Do you mean an HTML textarea input field? If so: 
#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $textarea_value = parm($textarea_field_name);
# ...

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If you mean something else, please tell us what it is.

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Re^2: Input value in textbox
by manav (Scribe) on Mar 15, 2005 at 07:32 UTC 
    my $textarea_value = parm($textarea_field_name);

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    should probably be 
    my $textarea_value = param($textarea_field_name);
#or (in all probability) if you know the textarea name beforehand
my $textarea_value = param('textarea_field_name');

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    Manav
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