I'm not sure I understand the question (BTW where is it?). But at least I can help you with some red flags in your script.

First of all always use strict mode and warnings in Perl. It means your scripts should start with 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

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It forces you to declare all variables you are using with my. See also perldoc strict. It helps to catch a lot of errors in Perl code.

Second of all don't reinvent the wheel. Don't try to parse query params yourself - chances are that you doing it wrong. Reuse existing code. That is CGI.pm.

Instead of 

$form_data = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};

$form_data =~ s/%([\dA-Fa-f][\dA-Fa-f])/pack ("C",hex ($1))/eg;

# Replace the + char with space char.

$form_data =~ s/\+/ /g;

# Split $form_data into name/value pairs
@fields = split (/&/, $form_data);

# Init script variables with form data values
# $form_name is the name from the form.
# from the text fields...

($form_name, $candidate) = split (/=/, $fields[0]);
($form_name, $position) = split (/=/, $fields[1]);
($form_name, $education) = split (/=/, $fields[2]);

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you should have something like 

use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
my $candidate = $q->param('candidate');
my $position = $q->param('position');
my $education = $q->param('education');

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Let's move further 

$form_name > dataform.html

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You can't write data into file this way. Read perldoc perlopentut for info how you can open files and read from/write to them.

Probably you need something like: 

open(OUT, "> dataform.html") or die "Can't open file: $!";
print "Candidate: $candidate\n";
print "Position: $position\n";
print "Education: $Education\n\n";
close OUT;

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This writes submited data into dataform.html. Probably you need to adjust format.

Well, I hope I gave enough info to do some homework (i.e. reading docs).

In reply to Re: Trying to write a CGI script for this piece of HTML by IlyaM
in thread Trying to write a CGI script for this piece of HTML by villa

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