Hi Monks
I've been having a little bit of trouble with this little segment of code, and rather than rewriting it to work a different way i was wondering exactly what was wrong with it.
Here is the offending code 
my %params =  map ($_ => param('$_'),param());
print '-->' . $params{'listname'}. '<--' . "\n";

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and here is the output from it 
m1:/usr/local/nmail/cgi-bin# ./maillist.pl listname=Construction wtf 
-->wtf<--

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I can't figure out why it is reading 'wtf' from the command line rather than the value "Construction".
I thought maybe because it is evaluating the command line as a hash rather than a list or something, i'm really not sure.
Any help would be much appreciated P.S I used strict and warnings in my code

Neil Archibald
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In reply to CGI params by devslashneil

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