While chipmunk will no doubt be right about the extra \r you are obviously hand parsing the CGI data which is part of the problem. Could I suggest you check out use CGI or die; and no excuses about not using CGI.pm as well as Ovid's most excellent CGI tutorial.

cheers

tachyon

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