From: "Vera, Michael" <mxvera@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T02:44:08+09:00
Subject: CGI Parameter Conversion

Greetings all,

I have I have a cgi script written in eruby. I have turned cgi.param into a
hash object 'p'

One of these parameters I need to use as an integer. It turns out this
parameter's type is Array (?!?) and not a string like I thought.

i = p['count'].to_s.to_i
               ^^^^^^^^^ (yuck)
As you can see, I was able to turn this thing into an integer finally, but
it leaves me with two questions:

0) Is there a prettier way to do what I am trying to do above?
1) Why is it an Array, when I thought it would be a key -> value, where
value is a string

Thank you

P.S. What the heck,
2)	What would be the situation where you would want it to be an Array?