You have a typo...easy one to miss,

....
my $query = CGI->new();
my $name = $query->cookie('username');
# was my $name2 = param('nametext');
my $name2 = $query->param('nametext');
....
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Update and all of the above kind advice from my fellow monks was better said by them than I could have said it (and faster too). EEjack