I had completely forgotten that the param method worked like that, and I now agree that's what you should use in this instance. In the future, if you have something similar that isn't CGI, or if you're masochistic enough to try to roll your own, this would work:

my $session = q{1678f192860fb3850d27244c76b704b1&action=select&salesma
+n=015&salesman=020&salesman=030&salesman=035&salesman=045&salesman=05
+0&salesman=065&salesman=075&salesman=090&salesman=095&salesman=100&sa
+lesman=105&salesman=110&salesman=120&salesman=900&salesman=911&salesm
+an=998&year=2003&go=GO};
my %hash;

push @{$hash{session}}, $session =~ /salesman=(\d+)/g;
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HTH.

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