Re: Dumping vars from CGI with Data::Dumper

[email protected] ("Brian J. Miller") Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:36:19 -0500
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Organization End Point Corp.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> I am trying to read the values of all the parameters received in a CGI.
> 
> But even using a Data::Dumper::Simple module, only the names of the 
> params are displayed, not the name/value relation of each one.
> 
> use Data::Dumper::Simple;
> use CGI;
> print Dumper(\@param);
> 
> any idea what I am doing wrong? I tryied with Data::Dumper::Names and 
> same result.
> 
> 

Where is @param defined? Is this a snippet or the whole thing? Do you 
have strict and warnings turned on?

my @param = CGI->new->param;


 > at the last post, it is
 >
 >     print Dumper(param);
 >
 > (without the @)
 >
 >
 >

Did you switch your 'use' statement to import 'param'? See "USING THE 
FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE" section of the documentation.

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Brian J. Miller
End Point Corp.
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