Two quick ideas, are you using single quotes to assign that variable, such as?
my $line = 'Hello $cgi->param("name"), how are you today?';
If not, I believe you can't use method calls inside a string, and expect it to interpolate, use an temp variable, such as:
my $name = $cgi->param('name');
and then:
my $line = "Hello $name, how are you today?";
If making an temp variable for each param, then a nice hash will do: (Untested)
my %cgiform;
for my $key ($cgi->param) {
$cgiform{$key} = $cgi->param($key);
}
And then you can just use
$cgiform{name}.
Update:
If you have more than one value with each form input, follow
Kanji's suggestion bellow.
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