From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-05-13T20:43:18+09:00
Subject: Re: cgi params api

Hello --

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Dossy wrote:

> On 2002.05.13, Wakou Aoyama <wakou@fsinet.or.jp> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:37:40AM +0900,
> >  Dossy wrote:
> >
> > >   ['val1', 'val2'].to_s == 'val1'
> >
> > if cgi["name"] return "val1"       ... maybe I don't notice "val2"
> > if cgi["name"] return "val1\0val2" ... maybe I notice "val2"
> >
> > therefore
> > cgi["name"] return "val1" ... maybe cause make trouble
>
> True, but in the Ruby idiom, cgi["name"] ought to return a
> single value.  If you want to iterate over all the values,
> you ought to do a cgi["name"].to_a.each to coerce the values
> into an array to iterate over.

Do you mean the CGI idiom?  In Ruby, a hash value can be (and often
is) anything, including an array (which really is a single value, or
rather a single object).


David

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