So, I'm passing data from a form to a script to insert data into a database. Simple, yes, and I feel really stupid for having problems with this.. I'm using someone else's script (because I was instructed to, and because its supposed to "Work"). well, it doesn't. when you pass it the input from a checkbox, it only inserts the first element of the checkbox array into the database.. so I tried a few things.. one (the commented one) didn't work, and while the other doesn't error, it doesn't do what I wanted it to do.. I'd like to make this as dynamic as possible, that way, it doesn't matter what variable becomes a check box or multi-select in the future, it'll still work. here's what I have.. %INPUT is formed using the old fashioned 
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTE
+NT_LENGTH'});

why, I don't know, but I "should use this because its more portable".

anyways here's the part that needs attention:

foreach $thing (keys(%INPUT)) {
        if(ref($INPUT{$thing}) eq "ARRAY") { $INPUT{$thing} = join('^'
+, $$INPUT{$thing}); }
#       if($#INPUT{$thing}) { $INPUT{$thing} = join('^', $$INPUT{$thin
+g}); }
}

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any other ideas? or insight?

-brad.. tired, bored, and tired. :)

In reply to CGI type question involving arrays.. by reyjrar

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