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There seem to be three questions here

Should I use CGI.pm for generating markup?

This comes down to largely personal preference. I dislike it and tend towards Template-Toolkit instead. On the other hand, it does automatically handle setting of the value attribute to match submitted data (which may or may not be something you want).

Does CGI.pm export the param() subroutine?

Yes, it does

Should I use CGI.pm for processing form parameters?

You should use something. If CGI.pm is too heavy for you, perhaps you might consider CGI::Lite (I've never used it, but haven't heard anything bad about it.). You might also consider using Apache::Request under mod_perl.

In reply to Re: to use or not to use CGI.pm by dorward
in thread to use or not to use CGI.pm by Anonymous Monk

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