CGI.pm has a method called init which slurps all of STDIN. So if init is called, you can't read STDIN - it's already been read. (And STDIN is a one-time-only thing.)

param internally calls init.

Not sure why you want to be reading this data from STDIN anyway. Just do:

$Chassis=param('Chassis');

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In reply to Re: Any idea to let Perl form data and scalar work in same page? by tobyink
in thread Any idea to let Perl form data and scalar work in same page? by GordonLim

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