PERL interpreter not asking for name=value pairs!! -HELP

rodry has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Scripts that accept parameters from a form are tested from the shell by typing in gthe form parameters and its values in their respective name=value pairs. Then you hit control+D to actually run the script.

However, for no apparent reason, PERL started just running the scripts without prompting the user for the name=value pairs.

This concerns me since that is the only way I know that I can debug those types of scripts.

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Re: PERL interpreter not asking for name=value pairs!! -HELP by btrott (Parson) on Aug 27, 2000 at 10:28 UTC
Well, uh... that's not actually perl itself that's doing that. It's (most likely) CGI.pm, which should be included in CGI scripts for form processing (and more! :). So are you using CGI.pm, and if so, are you constructing a new CGI object? Some things to check, at least. Also, if you are using CGI.pm, and you're sure about that, check that you aren't setting the $CGI::NO_DEBUG variable to 1. That will prevent CGI.pm from prompting you for keywords.	[reply]
Re: PERL interpreter not asking for name=value pairs!! -HELP by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2000 at 22:04 UTC
It looks like the latest version of CGI has changed things a bit. Now you have to use the -debug pragma to get that behavior: `use CGI qw/:standard -debug/;` This is present in version 2.68, to which I upgraded a couple of weeks ago. I believe I read something about this in the changelog, but you'll have to check on the CPAN: CGI.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: PERL interpreter not asking for name=value pairs!! -HELP by rodry (Beadle) on Aug 28, 2000 at 00:36 UTC
Thanks guys, I figured that out myself. Btrott pointed me in the right direction so after reading his post I hit the CGI.pm documentation.	[reply]