7.5. CGI.pm Introduced
So far, this has been pretty thin gruel. To do more complicated things in an easier fashion, we introduce the Perl/CGI programmer’s friend: CGI.pm.
CGI.pm is a Perl module written by Lincoln Stein. Our discussion of CGI.pm is just an introduction. Much more documentation is available. We recommend that you check out Lincoln Stein’s Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm [Stein 98]. You can also check out the CGI.pm documentation with perldoc CGI.
To use CGI.pm, tell Perl that you want to use it with the use pragma:
use CGI;
After Perl executes this statement, your program has access to all the methods that CGI.pm provides. The module can be further refined by specifying a more convenient programming style, called ...
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