[thelist] Quick and Dirty Environment Variables....

[Keith]

Anthony

> All very good points. I am very lucky that Perl is such a forgiving
> language that it supports hacks like me. ;-)

Hey a language created over many years with over 40,000 people
contributing to it's development through a newsgroup is by
definition a "hacker's" language. There are no "right" ways in Perl,
there are 40,000 right ways to do everything and support for all of
them are built-in :-)

> Even when I wrote the perl Env Variable routines, I had to dig into
> the CGI.pm manuals just to sort it all out. It was more of a test to
> "figure it out" versus finding the best solution. ;-)

Sometimes the best solution is whatever you "figure out". I use
CGI.pm a lot, especially for file uploads, so I took the body of your
code and made a subroutine out of it, added it to the dozens of
subroutines in my Homesite snippets. Now I can plop it onto a
script and use it when things go futz. Should come in handy. Thanks
again!

keith