https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15747 --- Comment #19 from David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> --- So yeah, even if you use the [] to create an arrayref, you'll still get the CGI warning, because CGI just knows you're asking for a single named parameter in list context; it doesn't know that you're going to create a reference using that list. But... even if you were using CGI->multi_param... you'd still need to use the [] construct to use an arrayref for a hash value rather than accidentally filling your hash full of other values because you added a list... Anyway, here's some easy tests to run: -------- BAD NEWS: use Modern::Perl; use CGI; use Data::Dumper; my $query = CGI->new(); $query->param('name',"bruce","wayne","clark","kent"); my %hash = ( id => 1, name => $query->param('name') ); warn Dumper(\%hash); -------- WELL DONE: use Modern::Perl; use CGI; use Data::Dumper; my $query = CGI->new(); $query->param('name',"bruce","wayne","clark","kent"); my %hash = ( id => 1, name => [$query->param('name')] ); warn Dumper(\%hash); --------- HALFWAY THERE: use Modern::Perl; use CGI; use Data::Dumper; my $query = CGI->new(); $query->param('name',"bruce","wayne","clark","kent"); my %hash = ( id => 1, name => scalar $query->param('name') ); warn Dumper(\%hash); -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.