Simple (I hope) perl question

[Madison Kelly]

Gya!!

   I could kiss you!! Do you know how long I've been trying to figure 
that out tonight? For some reason no search I could think of on Google 
(web and groups) would help!!

   Thanks you very much!!

Madison (who can finally get back to work...)

Sergio Salvi wrote:
> 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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