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in reply to Saving state in cgi.pm question

While this doesn't answer your question directly, as your needs grow from saving state to maintaining state via sessions etc. you may want to check out Apache::PageKit, which automagically provides all these things in a mod_perl environment. The documentation is a bit sparse, but once you get comfortable with the framework, it is a godsend.

You may also want to take a look at HTML::FillInForm which will allow you to later prepopulate an HTML form with the state you saved earlier. HTML::FillInForm is used by PageKit, so if you use the latter you get the former for free.

Hope this helps :-)