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@values = (param('foo'));

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The 'extra' parens around the param() call force list context.
They do nothing of the sort! They are completely unnecessary. This will do just fine: 
@values = param 'foo';

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Re: RE: RE: Re: Passing arrays to a CGI
by mkahn (Beadle) on Aug 03, 2003 at 03:55 UTC
    According to the documentation, maybe, and probably lots of your experience, it will work just fine.
    This didn't work for me. All the array values I passed were dumped into the first array element when I tried
    @list = param 'foo'; I was forced to add 
    @list_f = split /\s+/, $list[0];

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    I'm sure this had something to do with slices.
    I sent the data to this script using
    script.pl?list=@list
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