in reply to What does $query->param() do?

There are a few ways to explain this, as you didn't provide much detail. One short example could be:

use CGI; use strict; use warnings; my $query = new CGI({fungsil=>"123", foo=>"bar"}); print $query->param('fungsil'), "\n"; print $query->param('foo');

This will print:

123 #the value for parameter fungsil bar