I haven't used that functionality. Nice. Upon inspection though, I see that when called in scalar context, param('list') returns the first item only. In list context it works, returning an array of the values of all fields named 'list'.

http://localhost/somefile.cgi?list=1&list=2&list=666

$list = param('list');
# $list is 1
@list = param('list');
# @list is (1, 2, 666)
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With a list of checkboxes though, say for delete selection in a data table, I'd still have to use the map {/list_(.*)/}, param() trick, because I'd have to know which fields are checked.

Thanks for pointing that one out BUU

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