Re: how do i pass values entered in the textfield into a hash ?

[davorg]

Assuming that you've already used CGI.pm and declared the hash. And also that the text field is called hashdata...

foreach (split /,\s*/, param('hashdata')) {
  my ($k, $v) = split(/=>/);
  $hash{$k} = $v;
}

If you know the hash is going to be empty at the start, then it gets a bit simpler...

%hash = map { split /=>/ } 
        split /,\s*/, param('hashdata');