in reply to Populating an array reference in a hash with with a regex

With the right tools, it's trivial: 
use CGI qw(param);
my @salesmen = param('salesman');

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Always use CGI.pm for CGI, unless you have a very compelling counter-reason.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom