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We haven't done anything really special with the CGI module yet. All we've done is create a header for our HTML document that our Perl script is producing. That's not so terribly special when we are able to do that with one line of Perl in the first place. So what's so great about the CGI module? If we look right down the bottom of one of our scripts, and have a look at the rather convoluted code that we are having to use in order to process the data from the form, we can do all of this a lot more simply by using the CGI object that we've instantiated from CGI module. We can simply setup the chooser variable by calling one of the CGI objects methods, called param. And this is very concise indeed: all we need to do is to call the param method using this operator here from our CGI object, that we have instantiated at the top of this script with a certain parameter. In this case, chooser. And we can do the same for the data variable as well. In these 2 lines of code, act instead of all of this, all of those regular expressions, the whole loop reading in from standard input, splitting of the ampersand, break down at into key value pairs and so on. All of this is handled by those 2 simple lines there.