On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:

> On Jan 29, Jonathan E. Paton said:
>
> >> How can the param's be placed into a new hash?
> >
> >my %hash = param();
> >
> >since param() detects whether it's in list/array/hash
> >context and does the Right Thing.
>
> These is no such thing as "hash context" or "array context".  There is
> void context, scalar context, and list context.
>
>   my %hash = param();
>
> is list context, and stores only the NAMES of the fields (not their
> values) in %hash.

There is a method in CGI.pm that *does* return a hash with the fields and
their values.  I believe it is called Vars() (with a capital V).

-- Brett
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