Try:

use CGI ':standard';
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per the first section of the CGI.pm documentation.

Additionally, if you're using the CGI module, you can have it do your CGI headers (and even your HTML) for you:

use CGI ':standard';
print header, start_html(-title => 'CGI test');
print p('foo is ', param('foo'), '.');
print end_html;
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