Summary
In this hour, you took a closer look at the tools and resources you can use to assist you in writing CGI programs in Perl. First, I discussed some of the capabilities of CGI.pm. I then contrasted it with cgi-lib.pl, a simpler library for decoding form data. Next, I looked at CGI::Carp, a tool to assist programmers in debugging CGI programs. Finally, I talked about some places where you can look for more information on Perl, and explained how to find and download modules in CPAN.
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