Simple (I hope) perl question

[Sergio Salvi]

use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $value = $cgi->param("variable-name");

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   If I have a link that calls a cgi script with values after a '?', how 
> do I read in those values? For example, if I click the link:
> 
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.cgi?variable-name=1
> 
> How could I get 'script.cgi' to read the 'variable-name=1'?
> 
>   Thanks all!
> 
> Madison
> 
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