I have my second Perl program and it deals with making a webpage with CGI and html. We have to use checkboxes for a certain part of the program. How do I retrieve the parameters from those checkboxes? My example is a little abbreviated

Example Code 

#!/usr/bin/perl

#cgi lib, no need to parse form
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header();
print start_html("Available Classes");

print"<form action=\"EnrollStudentPL.cgi\" method=\"POST\">";
my $infile ="/home/ajb004/public_html/arabic.txt";
open(InStream, "$infile") or die$!;

while(<InStream>)
{
 s/_/ /g;
 my @word = split(',');
 my $word;
 print"<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"$word[0]\" value=\"on\"> $word[
+0]<br>";
print"$word[1] <br>";
print"$word[2] <br>";
print"$word[3] <br>";
}
close (InStream) or die$!;

print"<table border=\"0\">";
print"<tr>";
print"  <td> Enter your University ID number: </td>";
print"  <td><input type=\"text\" size=\"20\" name=\"ID\"></td>";
print"</tr>";
print"</table>";

print"<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Enroll\">";

print end_html();

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I know how to retrieve the text parameter from the ID number box, however I can't find how to retrieve the parameters for the checkboxes (I have more than one) so I can use if/else statements in order to alter database text file so I can increase the number of students listed as enrolled in those classes. What I'm looking for is the CGI code that allows me to use only the boxes that were checked. Please help!

In reply to Retrieving Check Box Parameters by ajbrewe

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