i've been fighting with this problem all day now, read through the mailing list archives, but still haven't found a working solution.
i have one line in my template to create hidden fields: [% cgi.hidden( Name => 'section' ).join %] which will work if there are multiple values for the param name 'section'. the above code fails to generate a hidden form element if there is only one value associated with the name ( and somewhat understandably ... it IS a one-element array, but i remember reading somewhere in the message archives that one-element arrays getr downgraded to scalars ... ) so i tried this: [% hidden_name = [ cgi.param( Name => 'section' ).list ] %] [% IF hidden_name.size <= 1 %] [% cgi.hidden( Name => 'section' ) %] [% ELSIF hidden_name.size >= 2 %] [% cgi.hidden( Name => 'section' ).join %] [% ELSE %] tests failed completely [% END %] but to no avail. the size of what should be @hidden_name always evalutes to 1, never to more than one, even though there is also output on the page ( rows in a table ) that correspond to the 'section' param in the CGI object ... am i missing something obvious? brian
