alright. i can't say i fully understand your msg. i'm not that advanced of a Perl'er...so, I'm thinkin i will change: 
sub get_params() {
  #*
  # to get the URL parameters, and package
  # them into a handy little scalar fit
  #*
  #@_; # (no parameters)
  my $cgi = CGI->new();
  my $query = join('&', map { $_ . '=' . $cgi->param($_) } $cgi->param
+());

  return $query; # a scalar of all URL parameters, each value separate
+d by an &
  #usage: my $url_params = get_params();
}

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to 
sub get_params() {
  #*
  # to get the URL parameters, and package
  # them into a handy little scalar fit
  #*
  #@_; # (no parameters)
  my $cgi = CGI->new();
  my $query = map { $_ . '=' . sanitize($cgi->param{$_}) } map { sanit
+ize($_) } $cgi->param();

  return $query; # a scalar of all URL parameters, each value separate
+d by an &
  #usage: my $url_params = get_params();
}

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hopefully that achieves what i'm looking to do. as for "assuming $cgi->param('someval')" returns a list, i don't think it does. it returns a scalar. could be wrong, but it's how i see it getting used everywhere (my $p = $cgi->param("p");)

I was pondering why the ball was getting bigger, and then...it hit me!

In reply to Re^4: problem with Crypt::PBKDF2 by jamroll
in thread problem with Crypt::PBKDF2 by jamroll

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