Dear Perlmonks--
I humbly request assistance with somewhat trivial matters.

I'm trying to do a bunch of stuff with a list of cgi parameters. What I'm trying to do here 
use CGI;
use Text::CSV_XS;

my %param;
foreach my $field ($cgi->param) {
    $param{ $field } = $cgi->param( $field );
    $param{ $field } =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; 
}

my $outfile = './work_request.csv';
if ($param{mode} eq 'submit') {
    my $result = check_all();
    if ($result eq 'ok') {
        $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new({
            'always_quote' => 1
        });
        @request = ($param{title}
                   ,$param{requester}
                   ,$param{department}
                   ,$param{date_requested}
                   ,$param{proposed_completion}
                   ,$param{emergency}
                   ,$param{work_around}
                   ,$param{situation}
                   ,$param{solution}
                   ,($param{B01} || 0)
                   ,($param{B02} || 0)
                   ,($param{B03} || 0)
                   ,($param{B04} || 0)
                   ,($param{B05} || 0)
                   ,($param{B06} || 0)
                   ,$param{benefits});
        $csv->combine(@request);
        my $line = $csv->string;
        # $csv->print($outfile, $line) # this is how I should be writi
+ng the file
                                       # but it demands an arrayref (?
+)
        my $fh = new IO::File ">> $outfile";
        if (defined $fh) {
            print $fh ($line);
            $fh->close;
        }
    }
}

sub check_all {
    $result = 'ok' if ($param{title}
                      ,$param{requester}
                      ,$param{department}
                      ,$param{date_requested}
                      ,$param{proposed_completion}
                      ,$param{emergency}
                      ,$param{work_around}
                      ,$param{situation}
                      ,$param{solution}
                      ,($param{B01}
                            ||
                        $param{B02}
                            ||
                        $param{B03}
                            ||
                        $param{B04}
                            ||
                        $param{B05}
                            ||
                        $param{B06})
                      ,$param{benefits})
}

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is check to make sure all parameters are present, including one of B01-B06, then write CSV to a file. I don't understand why $result always gets assigned the value "ok", and I can't get the output in a file.

Also, how can I incorporate a complex data structure, ie: putting all the params in a hash of hashes and run tests on that?

In reply to Easy way to run tests on many CGI params? by meonkeys

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