Hello: I got this so far: use CGI; $query=new CGI; print $query->dump that ain't good enough though Lincoln Stein has a script somewheres that says that the script below will append named parameters to a file but I ain't getting it, my web star server is havin problems with the line 2: 1. use CGI; 2. open (OUT,'>>test.out') || die; 3. $records = 5; 4. foreach (0..$records) { 5. my $q = new CGI; 6. $q->param(-name=>'counter',-value=>$_); 7. $q->save(OUT); 8. } 9. close OUT; 10. # reopen for reading 11. open (IN,"test.out") || die; 12. while (!eof(IN)) { 13. my $q = new CGI(IN); 14. print $q->param('counter'),"\n"; 15. } my form is at: http://home.earthlink.net/~kohsuan/ex/clinic.html Matthew Phillips www.psychosphere.net ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch