in reply to Question On Forms and MS Word

Please consider using CGI.pm (or CGI::Simple) for your CGI processing needs. For one reason, cgi-lib.pl, which you seem to be using or emulating, has been obsolete and deprecated for some time.

There should be no reason to need help with parsing form entries from the POST or GET results manually. If you're rolling your own solution for anything more than fun or education, you should already know how to do it as well as the common, documented, and well-supported module. If you don't know how to do it as well as CGI.pm does it, then please use CGI.pm or CGI::Simple and we as a community can focus on supporting that.

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Re^2: Question On Forms and MS Word
by njweatherman (Sexton) on Sep 26, 2007 at 15:03 UTC
    Thanks for your help in regards to using CGI.pm The Perl Module use CGI qw(:cgi-lib); was the problem.
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      Okay, so you're using CGI.pm but in ts compatibility mode with cgi-lib? I'd suggest switching over to the native CGI.pm way of doing things. This: 
      use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
my @array_of_options = $cgi->param( 'options' );

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      is just dead simple compared to what you're trying to do.
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