OK, so I'm being bugged again, bugged by some messiness and laziness - my two favorite pastimes... 
# $q is CGI object
# $foo and $ bar are hash references

print $q->escapeHTML(Data::Dumper::Dumper($foo,$bar));

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only prints $foo, because escapeHTML is expecting a string, and Dumper returns a list. So I use: 
print $q->escapeHTML(join '', Data::Dumper::Dumper($foo,$bar));

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and I think it's a bit ugly - ie, non intuitive. So, does anyone think escapeHTML should be amended in CGI.pm so that if you send it an array, it escapes all elements rather than just the first (and returns an array rather than a string)?

I just got a little perlexed - and I was bored enough to think about it a little... :)

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cLive ;-)

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