Recognition of variable types in parse_args is now automatic.

diff --git a/lib/perl/CGI.pm b/lib/perl/CGI.pm
index cf790880961773696dc381a225e7fb19070f61fb..aeb6c50504a52a4c8bdda50fa4e11cd1d087ebd5 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/perl/CGI.pm
+++ b/lib/perl/CGI.pm
@@ -55,10 +55,11 @@ sub parse_arg_string($) {
                        if (!/^$rx$/) { $_ = $arg->{'default'}; }
                }
                
-               if (defined $arg->{'array'}) {
-                       push @{$arg->{'array'}}, $_;
-               } else {
+               my $r = ref($arg->{'var'});
+               if ($r eq 'SCALAR') {
                        ${$arg->{'var'}} = $_;
+               } elsif ($r eq 'ARRAY') {
+                       push @{$arg->{'var'}}, $_;
                }
        }
 }
@@ -66,10 +67,13 @@ sub parse_arg_string($) {
 sub parse_args($) {
        $arg_table = shift @_;
        foreach my $a (values %$arg_table) {
+               my $r = ref($a->{'var'});
                defined($a->{'default'}) or $a->{'default'}="";
-               die "Should define either 'var' or 'array'" if defined($a->{'var'})+defined($a->{'array'})!=1;
-               defined $a->{'var'} and ${$a->{'var'}} = $a->{'default'};
-               defined $a->{'array'} and @{$a->{'array'}} = ();
+               if ($r eq 'SCALAR') {
+                       ${$a->{'var'}} = $a->{'default'};
+               } elsif ($r eq 'ARRAY') {
+                       @{$a->{'var'}} = ();
+               }
        }
        defined $ENV{"GATEWAY_INTERFACE"} or die "Not called as a CGI script";
        my $method = $ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"};