I am building a cgi web form that will be used for data requests. The form is nothing more than a series of checkboxes for the users to choose which elements they want in their data pull. I am using a pipe delimited flat file to generate the list of checkboxes. The flat file looks like this:

field|data_field1|value for data field 1
field|data_field2|value for data field 2
type|State=CA|state='CA'
type|State=OR|state='OR'
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I loop through the file and push the different components into a @fields and @types array so that they can be seperated on the form.

my ($type,$name,$desc)=split/\|/;
        $x=join ("|", ($name,$desc));

        if (lc($type) eq "field"){
                push @fields, $x;
        }
        elsif (lc($type) eq "type"){
                push @types, $x;
        }
...
...
...
 foreach $f (@types){
        ($name,$desc)=(split/\|/,$f);
        $desc=~s/\n//g;
        $name=ucfirst($name);
        print qq{<tr><td>$name</td>
                <td><input type="checkbox" name="$name" value="$desc">
+</td>
                </tr>};

  }
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What I need to do now if gather up the items that were checked and put them into an email.

Since the list of parameters is ever changing I don't want to hard code the names in. Is there a way to get this list from the form without knowing the parameter names and put the values into the body of an email quickly and efficiently?
Regards