This html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
+">
</head>
<body>
<form action='z/bin/test.cgi' method='post'>
<textarea name='textinputs'>In a village of (as in your post)</textare
+a>
<input type='hidden' name='foo' value='foo'>
<input type='submit'>
</form>

</body>
</html>

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and script 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use CGI qw/ :standard /;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html>\n";
print Dump;
print "</html>\n";

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gave 
<html>
<ul>
<li><strong>textinputs</strong></li>
<ul>
<li>In a village of La Mancha, ... telling of it.
<br />
<br />
You must know, then, that the above-named ...  thoughts prevented him.
+ </li>

</ul>
<li><strong>foo</strong></li>
<ul>
<li>foo</li>
</ul>
</ul></html>

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I've truncated the text but it shows that all of it was returned. There is also the foo field there. This is the hidden field you have in your html. This doesn't show in your output.

Are you sure you are looking at the files (html/cgi) that you think you are? This is often the reason when I hit frustating snags like this. :-)

Good luck!

In reply to Re: Perl truncating HTML form input by wfsp
in thread Perl truncating HTML form input by sstevens

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