I have come unstuck trying to debug textarea. I have read all the docs I can think of and done all the searches I can think of. So I know that for debugging a POST action with a textarea I really need to include

use CGI qw(-debug);
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This means I get prompted for the parameters. However I really need the textarea to be multiline and when I look at the value returned by the textarea it only ever includes the first line. However when I run it a normal server/browser way all the lines are present. So what am I doing wrong when debugging.

Edit: I can produce a simple example. The following script suffices:

use CGI qw(-debug);
use strict;
use warnings;

my $cgi = CGI->new;
print $cgi->param('a');
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If this is called "a.pl" you can then debug it as

perl -d a.pl
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At which point the following happens:

perl -d a.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.

main::(a.pl:5): my $cgi = CGI->new;
                                                                      
+                                                                     
+                    DB<1> n
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input; press ^D or ^
+Z when done)
a='a
b
v
d'
main::(a.pl:6): print $cgi->param('a');
                                                                      
+                                                                     
+                    DB<1> p $cgi->param('a')
a b v d
                                                                      
+                                                                     
+                    DB<2> q
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Okay I have worked out how to get more than the first line, but the fact that they are separate lines is lost.