APM: param() WAS: How to psudo-array: $a$b ???

CaptNemo CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com
Tue Oct 24 08:45:52 PDT 2006


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".



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