in reply to Form validation/Search script
I highly recomend use CGI; as it will (among other things) make reading your parameters much easier:
use CGI qw(:standard); my(%params) =(); foreach my $param (param()){ $params{$param} = param($param); }
Just makes life easier for us all. see CGI.
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