merlyn is right about what he says about security risks, but my code does does handle any form that is thrown at it. You can get the list of form parameters it has processed by using:

keys %form
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Basically I've got a few different forms for people to submit stuff, one is a grocery list, the other is a list of people to contact in an emergency, etc.

I'd like to make it so that this script can handle either form, instead of writing out a separate form for each script. Although now it seems like its taking way longer to code around this =)

Thats the reason I need to have the name of the variable that the value is coming with.

What you are asking for is very basic. Read through the CGI.pm documentation if you'd like more examples. The code snippets that have been posted here seem to cover exactly what you are looking for. If you need the name of all "variables" in your form, you do this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;
my @vars = $q->param; # <-- That's all there is to getting 'em
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It's pretty simple. I don't see what you are having trouble with. That will handle any form you want to throw at it.

Cheers,
Ovid

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And then you get all this coded, and someone calls your script handing it a bunch of parameters you don't expect. If you act on them, you are in for a big surprise. But how will you know to reject them? Right... you'll need to know this in the script. Now you're back to a list of known parameters, and you don't need to handle "anything that comes in". End of problem.

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