in reply to random array - a newer twist

You are misusing &CGI::param. I believe your usage sets the value of the 'aware02' field to an array of the remaining arguments and returns that array to @array.

Here's how to do what you want:

my @array= map {[param($_)]} (
                 'aware02', 'aware03', 'aware04',
                 'aware05', 'aware06', 'aware07',
                 'aware08', 'aware09', 'aware10',
                 'aware11', 'aware12', 'aware13',
                 'aware14');

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The square brackets are in the map block to take care of any multiple valued fields. You'll need to dereference the array elements to get their values.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Re: random array - a newer twist
by felwick (Sexton) on Nov 05, 2002 at 23:13 UTC
    zaxo - thanks for the quick response....i'm new to CGIpm and have been coding since about 7pm last nite - aka, i'm braindead right now.

    what i'm getting back now is 

    <input type="hidden" name="comp1" value="ARRAY(0x102392d4)">
<input type="hidden" name="comp2" value="ARRAY(0x10239388)">
<input type="hidden" name="comp3" value="ARRAY(0x102392ec)">
<input type="hidden" name="comp4" value="ARRAY(0x10237080)">
<input type="hidden" name="comp5" value="ARRAY(0x1023931c)">

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    how do i make this mean something?

    thanks, felwick

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      That's what I was talking about with 'dereferencing'. Either leave out the square brackets in the map block (if there are no multivalued fields) or else wrap the values you print in '@{}' to dereference them. The References quick reference tutorial by tye may help you a lot.

      You may want to think of other data structures to use. A hash of values keyed by field names is often natural for cgi form data.

      After Compline,
      Zaxo

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        checking out the tutorial now....

        thanks, felwick

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