Input arrays to CGI

[dooberwah]

In PHP (yes, I've worked in it) you can have several inputs on a webpage enter as an array in your script. All you need to do is name them like an array: using a name, square brackets and a number (foo[1], foo[2], foo[3], etc.). Is there any Perl module/module function to do this sort of thing?

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[jeffa]

CGI.pm will handle this. All you need to do is request the multi-value parameter as a list:

use strict;
use CGI qw(param);
use Data::Dumper;

my @list = param('list');
print Dumper \@list;

Run this on the command line like so:

./foo.pl 'list=foo&list=bar&list=baz&list=qux'

and you should see the following:

$VAR1 = [
          'foo',
          'bar',
          'baz',
          'qux'
        ];

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