I'm using CGI for the main data handling, I was unable to find a way with CGI to extract the commandline like I needed. I have printed out the CGI information and it seems to be more for creating forms rather then processings them, at leat the way I need them to be processed.
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IF
you're getting info off the command line
THEN
you probably want one of the Getopt modules
(Getopt::Std or Getopt::Long).
And CGI is DEFINITELY built for processing input from HTML forms -- in fact, it's very powerful that way (hint: check out the documentation for param in the CGI manpage!).
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