cookie retrieval

costas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using this to retrieve values from a multiple cookie

my $cookie_value = fetch CGI::Cookie;
only problem is that that the results that it brings back appear like this

$cookie_value->{'name'} = name=value;path=\

I then have to perform split function to extract value.
how can you retrieve JUST the value in a hash set?

THanks

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Re: cookie retrieval by mpolo (Chaplain) on May 18, 2001 at 14:55 UTC
You're reading the cookie into a scalar variable rather than a hash. If you change this to `my %cookie_value=fetch CGI::Cookie;` [download] you will have it in a hash, so that $cookie_value{'name'} will indeed be equal to 'value'. So, in essence, one punctuation error was the difference between success and failure.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: cookie retrieval by DrZaius (Monk) on May 18, 2001 at 20:25 UTC
If you are '`use CGI; my $cgi = CGI->new`'ing, you can do this instead: `my $cookie_a = $cgi->cookie('a');` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]