From CGI man page :

my @values = $q->multi_param('foo');
 
    -or-
 
my $value = $q->param('foo');
 
    -or-
 

my @values = $q->param('foo'); # list context, discouraged and will ra
+ise
                               # a warning (use ->multi_param instead)

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Pass the param() method a single argument to fetch the value of the named parameter. If the parameter is multivalued (e.g. from multiple selections in a scrolling list), you can ask to receive an array. Otherwise the method will return a single value.
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Maybe your $form_data{"box$i$j"} contained an array (edit: it is not correct, it will contain the length of the array) as returned by param($sparam}) in list content, whereas the param("box$i$j") eq "string" was forced to return a scalar, i.e. a single string. If that's the case you have some more debugging to do.

In that case, 

use strict;
use warnings;

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at the beginning of your program will be your friends.

In reply to Re: Trouble testing if on-the-fly generated checkboxes are checked by bliako
in thread Trouble testing if on-the-fly generated checkboxes are checked by goldgryph

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