DATA from HTML using STDIN

[KC LO at MAXIS]

HI guys/gals,   Is there a way to re-convert characters like ' # ', @, $,%,^,& etc from an HTML page to it's orginal form instead of the '%21% ' ? I'm passing data from HTML page to a MAccess database using ODBC by the following method:-   read(STDIN, $query , $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});   using the standard STDIN method to read contents  from a HTML page.   Or should I use a different method? I'm not using perl CGI in this script.   Thanks.   regards, KC