Ovid's CGI Course, lesson 5 explains how to capture form data. If you're new to CGI I suggest reading and understanding the whole course. See also Web Programming from the tutorials section.

In your form CGI:

print $cgi->textfield(
   -name => "foo", #This is the name we need later
   -value => "bar"
);
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In your code where you want to retrieve those values:

my $foo = $cgi->param(
   -name => "foo" #Back from earlier
);
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Couldn't get easier than that :)

Don't know what you're initializing CGI.pm with (I always use CGI qw(:standard) ), but in my scripts I can access the form fields just by saying param('foo'), or if I want to cycle through them, param($_) for param() . Your method seems a bit wordy.

Your method seems a bit wordy.

I do it for verbosity, so that the OP gets exactly what I mean. You're right -- I could have done it using the :standard method, but I personally dislike that method.
My initialisation of the CGI object is just $cgi = new CGI;

~Thomas~