So, after looking at your code, I'm guessing what you want is to process a form that looks something like
  <input type="text" name="edit_name_1" value="hello" size="20">
  <input type="text" name="edit_name_2" value="world" size="20">
  <input type="text" name="edit_name_3" value="form" size="20">

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..where you have a number of edit_name_n fields.

I suggest you do the following:

  foreach my $key ( keys %ARGS ) {
    # skip any arguments that aren't of interest
    next if ( $key !~ m/^edit_name_(\d+)$/ );

    my $num = $1; # captured from the regexp
    my $name = $ARGS{$key};

    $m->out( "<p>Edit field $num = $name</p>" );
  }

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In reply to Re: can't use string as an array ref.... by monarch
in thread can't use string as an array ref.... by inblosam

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