A few things. Firstly cgi-lib is old, very old. Please do not use this, it has some nasty security flaws and IIRC isn't 100% compliant with the CGI specification. Use the CGI module, it will be well worth the short time taken to replace cgi-lib. Secondly, your code is missing:

use strict;
use warnings;
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See Use strict and warnings.

On to your question. For your example above, does your script receive the input correctly? If I where you, I'd do the following:

• add use strict;
• add use warnings;
• Read up on CGI, CGI Programming from the tutorials section. Ovid's CGI Course will take you through the basics including debugging CGI scripts.

After this is you have further problems please let us know.

Hope this helps.