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[QUOTE="A. Sinan Unur, post: 4800382"]
It also suggests an alternative. Read all of the entry.

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Talent, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder.

If you are not going to use HTML generation capabilities of CGI.pm, you
should use something like CGI::Minimal.

Just a little explanation: The question is not whether CGI.pm is the
greatest thing since sliced bread. Most inexperienced programmers opt
for the handrolled solution instead of using CGI.pm (or a comparable
module) for processing forms. They seem to repeat all the same mistakes
with minor variations. They seem to be unaware of the CGI specs. So on
and so forth. Hence, my statement that "in most cases, it is a mistake
not to use CGI.pm".

Hence, the general consensus in this group, that if you are going to ask
a question about a Perl program designed to run in a CGI environment,
you'd better not be using a buggy home-brewed form processing routine.

CGI.pm has the advantage of being included in the core distribution, has
gone through many rounds of bug fixing etc.

Sinan
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