All I want to do it is read some form data.!! I'm not a perl programmer so this is doing my head in. Anyway, I have the sub below: 

# A simple HTTP request parser to emulate ASP request.xxx<
# So you can do $request->{"clicked"} in place of Request("clicked")
# Has problems with MIME or complex submits
#

sub getHTTPData

{

    my $xx;

    my $buffer;

    my %vars;

    if($ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"} eq "GET")

    {
        $buffer=$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
    } 
    else 
    {
        read ( STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"});
    }
    
    foreach $pair (split(/&/, $buffer)) 
    {
        $pair =~ tr/+//;
        ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        $value =~ s/%(\w\w)/sprintf("%c", hex($1))/ge; # convert hex t
+o ascii
        $value=~s/\+/ /g;
        $vars{$name}="$value";
    }
    
    return \%vars;
}

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so that I can use $uid = $request->{"uid}";

Fair enough. I also want to be able to access all the items submitted in a form. So I tried to use this bit of code as well: 

use CGI ':standard';
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "<body>";
foreach my $name ( param() ) {

        my @values = param ($name);

        print "<p><b>Key:</b> $name <b>Value(s):</b> @values";
        }

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That works fine. BUT if I use the following after the above code: 
$request = getHTTPData();

print "<br> fromtime is ". $request->{"fromTime"};

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I get nada! Only one way will work (whichever is used first on the page)... am i asking to much to be able to do the equivalent of: 
for each fld in request.form
# do stuff with the name and value
next

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Ideally something in the sub getHTTPData() would probably be best. Any suggestions? (and I thought Lotus Script/ Domino was opaque...). Thanks,
p.s. Is it possible to make variables on the fly from names/ values submitted from a form i.e. if there are fields name id, acc1, acc2 ..accn can I do something like this (in pseudo code) 
foreach fld in formdata{

make a variable named $fld  have a value of $value

}

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that I can then access later in the page?..;-)

Edit by tye: title, READMORE

In reply to reading CGI form data by markhoy

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