FYI: CGI.pm has a backwards compatability layer to cgi-lib.pl which can be invoked with

use CGI;
CGI::ReadParse();
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This creates the %in hash that cgi-lib.pl (a deprecated lib) folks liked to see. If you still insist on making your own POST/GET parser, why not just cut and paste the CGI parsing routine found in "sub new{...}" and tweak as necessary?

But why do you wish to propagate bad code? Just yell at them to use CGI! There is NO excuse!

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