cookie retrieval

[costas]

I am using this to retrieve values from a multiple cookie

my $cookie_value = fetch CGI::Cookie;
only problem is that that the results that it brings back appear like this

$cookie_value->{'name'} = name=value;path=\

I then have to perform split function to extract value.
how can you retrieve JUST the value in a hash set?

THanks

[mpolo]

You're reading the cookie into a scalar variable rather than a hash. If you change this to

my %cookie_value=fetch CGI::Cookie;

you will have it in a hash, so that $cookie_value{'name'} will indeed be equal to 'value'.

So, in essence, one punctuation error was the difference between success and failure.

[DrZaius]

If you are 'use CGI; my $cgi = CGI->new'ing, you can do this instead:

my $cookie_a = $cgi->cookie('a');