param() is the perl/cgi command to receive data from an HTML form HTML FORM: <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="dayofweek" VALUE="FRIDAY"> sends data to ----> Perl program: $day = param ('dayofweek'); $day will then have FRIDAY as it's value. >What's "param()"? > perldoc -f param >does not show that Perl has a built-in function named "param".