Grabbing HTML param's and using them in Flash

Greetings friends,

i’ll be starting work on a little app here at work, and the whole idea behind it is to fill in a specific object parameter in the HTML, and pull that information out from within Flash so that i can output certain things…

for example, we’ll be using perl to output a value in !!user!!

<param name=“user” value="!!user!!" />

My question is, is there anyway to parse this information from within Flash?