Re: [MacPerl] the return of newbie :)

[Jamie Flournoy <jamie@westlake.com>]

At 3:03 PM -0400 10/1/97, David A. Barro wrote:
>Hi again.  Thanks to the folks who helped me with my last question.
>
>I got a new one now :)  (wait, don't hide)
>Back in the OLD way (un*x) I used to have a statement in my cgi
>scripts that said:  require "cgi-lib.pl", another statement that
>said: &ReadParse (*input) (or something very close to that)
>and I basically referred to all the input from a web page by its
>symbolic variable name from the html code...
>
>ReadParse was a very nice utility from the cgi-lib.pl utility set
>that I had.... My question is...
>
>Now that I'm in the NEW way, is/are there any equivalent utilities
>that I'll have to make reference to via a require statement?
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>David Barro
>
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cgi-lib.pl is far from nice, CGI.pm is infinitely superior for many
reasons. perl.com has a treatise on this subject. I have no idea if it
works on the Mac but it's way, way better than cgi-lib.

</rant>


- Jamie Flournoy
Senior Internet Specialist
Westlake Solutions, Inc.
Internet Training and Consulting
<http://www.westlake.com/>



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