I'm getting there (slowly).
I read the following -
http://www.perldoc.com/...lib/Getopt/Long.html
It appears that what I was trying should work -
perl scriptname.cgi --db=nameofdatabase
Any ideas why it's not working?
I'm trying to achieve the command line equiverlant of -
http://127.0.0.1/...gi?db=nameofdatabase

When we use the command line do we need to use the leading "?" and "&" between values that we want to parse?

Once I get it to work I should be able to parse in ALL the fields for my search the same way and see what is happening with my script.

Any ideas?
Thank you.