havng a large issue that's being exacerbated by a small one (or what I think is a small one). here is the small problem: 

    # certification check statement
    my $service_requests = CGI->new() or dienice("it's the CGI thing")
+;

    my (%services, $test, $LIST_QUERY);

    foreach my $checked_box ( $service_requests->param ) {
        if ( $checked_box =~ m/(\d+)_\d+/ ) {
                my $product_id        = $1;
                push @{$services{$product_id}}, $service_requests->par
+am($checked_box) or dienice("it's the services push");
                $test = "t";
        } else { dienice("it's not seeing checked boxes @{$service_req
+uests->param}[0..3]"); }
    }

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basically with @{$service_requests->param}[0..3] i was trying to see if there was anything coming from ->param at all. I just want to know what the right way to get something from this would be. I tried a whole bunch of different ways to get data out, all passed ran all returned nothing. Maybe this is the right way and it's just that there is nothing there, I'm just not sure and i have a deadline to show a prototype of this thing tommorow. :( Since it was fine this morning, I'm a bit bamboozled.

any help appreciated

-- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)

In reply to checking if new CGI worked by jptxs

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