From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-05-12T20:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

On 2002.05.12, patrick-may@monmouth.com <patrick-may@monmouth.com> wrote:
> With multiple params, an interesting bit is that the programmer will
> probably want to always code for an array.  If I have a group of
> checkboxes, I'd rather do:
> 
> cgi['key'].values.each { |value|
> 
> }

cgi['key'].to_a.each { | value | ... }

While #values may be more human readable, #to_a is idiomatic for
Ruby programmers: we know that we expect an Array to come back.

-- Dossy

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