Update: My advice only applies if you are using CGI.pm, of course. But there is no way for me to know what you are doing...

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;

ok, i'll be using perl to print html. sorry about the lack of information in my previous post

As implied in nysus' reply, you really want to be using the module CGI.pm in this project. There is a submodule called CGI::Cookie, which specifically does what you want: reads the cookies -- you can either create a hash or leave them in the CGI object and read them off as you need them. In any case, check out Use CGI or die; on this site to see why this module is such a good idea.

use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Cookie;

my $CGI = new CGI;
my %cookies = fetch CGI::Cookie; # get the old cookies

my $i = 0;
$i = $cookies{'i'}->value + 1 if defined $cookies{'i'};
                
# create new cookie to hold value
my $cookie = $CGI->cookie(
    -name  => 'i',
    -value => $i,
);

# and this makes it all work
print $CGI->header(-cookie=>$cookie), "i is now $i";
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