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Hi,

I've never seen this behaviour before so am questioning my understanding of variables in a Perl CGI environment has been wrong from the start. I was always under the impression that the lifespan of a variable in a CGI script is just during the execution of that script (unless of course they are passed between pages).

I've just noticed that a variable I am using to calculate a value in a Perl CGI script is retained each time the script is called. So the net result is the variable never gets reset back to 0.

As a test, I've created a very simple CGI script to just add 1 to a variable and display it ($test++; print $test;). No other declarations. Run this as a CGI script and the numbers go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. However, run this in a command shell and it always returns 1.

I'm amazed as I've never seen this behaviour before. And I'm sure I would have done with the Perl CGI I have done over the years.

Hoping someone may put me out of my misery and confirm it's a bug of some sort.

My environment is Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1, ActivePerl perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0), Windows IIS.

Many thanks
Gaz

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