I'm not sure if this is the right forum so i'd appreciate pointers to the correct place if i'm wrong.

I've got DBI running between apache and an Oracle 10gR2 database. I can insert data with no problem. Here's what i'm attempting to do.

  1. Put up a HTML form where user enters his userid, password, and
     emailid.
  2. I pass this information t a perl module and verify his user exists
     in the database.
  3. If successfully validating this user I get account information
     from the database, put up a html form, and post that information
     to text boxes in the html form.

The problem i'm having is returning the data to the text areas in the form. I can print the data coming back from the database so that piece is working. When I set the value in the text box to $username in the text box I get $username instead of what was returned from the database. I can print the actual returned username by doing a print of $username variable but outside the text block. Ultimately I would like the user to be able to make changes to their user information then i'll update the database. I'm sure this can be done and that means i'm probably looking past something really obvious. Google has not been much use. Any ideas?

Stumped

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