Cannot detect environment variables

[George Petri]

Hi all!

Firstly, thanks to all those people who helped me with my command line 
arguments problem.  Special mention goes to Jeff and his "Poorgramming joke".

But unfortunately, I've run up against another problem :(

I recently did this:

        print $ENV{USER}, "\n";

And i got "george" back as the response.

Then I did this (in Bash, Linux-Mandrake 7.2):

        MYVARIABLE=astring
        perl -e 'print $ENV{MYVARIABLE}, "\n";'

It spits out nothing...why doesn't PERL detect any of my environment 
variables?  This is critical in some CGI programs that I intend to write (but 
haven't written yet :)).

Thanks,
George Petri