G'day amelinda,

CGI's append function varies in behaviour depending upon what it's second argument is. If passed a list reference as a second argument, it appends all those values onto the list of values associated with that given parameter. If the second argument is a scalar, then only that scalar is appended. The third and subsequent arguments are silently ignored.

Here's some example code:

$q->append("foo","hello");           # Adds "hello" to foo's list of v
+alues.
$q->append("foo","hello","world");   # As above, world is ignored.
$q->append("foo",["hello","world"]); # appends both hello and world to
+ foo's values.
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Hope that this helps clarify things.

Cheers,
Paul