This is really strange, but I'm not quite sure how to explain it. I have a project (full source available at Flame's scratchpad *the school project listing*) and I use Apache::Request on it. Now I've been using Apache::Request's param method to get the current params, however I'm running into a bit of difficulty now that I am using one paramater with multiple values. Now around line 113 I convert the params to a hash using the following:

   my %ARGS;
   {
      #Localize @temp since I won't need it later
      my @temp = $state->{'r'}->param();
      foreach (@temp){
         $ARGS{$_} = $state->{'r'}->param($_);
      }
   }

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This has worked up till now, when I needed that second value. I attempted, where I needed it (roughly line 985, the sub browse), to use the following:

   my @schedules = $state->{'r'}->param('browseselect');
   return qq~<tr><td>~.Dumper(@schedules).qq~</td></tr>~;

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As a simple test to see that it could get these values out, however when I attempt this, the apache thread seems to lock up. As a further experement I changed the initial setup of the %ARGS hash to this:

   my %ARGS;
   {
      my @temp = $state->{'r'}->param();
      foreach (@temp){
         $ARGS{$_} = (scalar(@{ [$state->{'r'}->param($_)] }) > 1 ? [$
+state->{'r'}->param($_)] : $state->{'r'}->param($_)) ;
      }
   }

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After this change, suddenly everything is working and yielding the expected results. So I now find myself wondering why the difference. I admit this is poorly described here, I'm not sure I fully understand my question myself, but I'm really confused here. Thanks for any assistance you can give.




My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.

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In reply to Apache::Request and param($x) infinite loop? by Flame

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