# Using flash send variables to a Perl script and displaying them

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**Created:** [August 3, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-flash-send-variables-to-a-perl-script-and-displaying-them/27525 "2003-08-03T17:57:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![veeracs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5fc32e/32.png) [@veeracs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/veeracs)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-flash-send-variables-to-a-perl-script-and-displaying-them/27525/1 "2003-08-03T17:57:04Z")

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This is my flash script to send the variables “username” and “password” (by accepting input from the user) to the PERL script  
on (release) {  
getURL(“[https://saucer.cc.umr.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/csv9qd/firstperl.pl](https://saucer.cc.umr.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/csv9qd/firstperl.pl)”, “\_blank”, “POST”);  
}

This is my PERL script

#!/umr/bin/perl5  
use lib “/afs/umr.edu/software/umrperl/libs”;  
use UMR::HTMLUtil;  
use UMR::Oracle;  
print "Content-type:text/html

“;  
print “show me the monkey”;  
$usernames = username;  
$passwords = password;  
print”\<br\>";  
print"$usernames";  
print"\<br\>";  
print"$passwords";

It doesn’t work.  
I’m just accepting the user input using my flash movie and sending those input values to my PERL script for display.

Thanks