Ken Y. Clark wrote: > As for this and Perrin's comment about parsing on your own, the point > is that you've written a lot of code that has already been written and > debugged by a lot of really smart people. There's no reason for you > to be reading STDIN and spliting and all that. If you're using > mod_perl, then you really should do yourself a favor and read up on > Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie for doing all this stuff.
Even if you are just using CGI, you shouldn't write your own parsing code like this. Rather than try to explain why, I'll point you to this article on the subject: http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=51012 - Perrin
