Question : My html Form is not getting parsed to cgi

My html Form is not getting parsed to cgi

My html is not passing the selectbox to the cgi. If I change the acct in the cgi to a hardcoded value I get a print out value. Thoughts?

In the html

<select id ="selectBox" name="acct">

In the cgi

$acct = "$FORM{'acct'}";
print <<EndHTML;
<body>
Account $acct has been disabled now.
</body></html>

When the above line is printed this is printed, Account has been disabled now

Answer : My html Form is not getting parsed to cgi

The way you have it written, the Perl script doesn't know anything about your form fields.

Here's a quick rewrite of the bulk of your script, which could still use some improvements.

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my %FORM = $cgi->Vars;

my $ht=`hostname`;
#
my $decrypt"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; #### encrypted pwd

my $acct  = $FORM{'acct'};



open my $out_fh, '>>', "/tmp/matt.out" or die "failed to open </tmp/matt.out> $!";
print $out_fh "done with account $FORM{'acct'} or $acct\n";
close $out_fh;