Getting different items with same name in URL rewriting

[Tekk]

Couldn't think of a decent and short enough title for this post so sorry about the ugly Title!!

In any case, I've got a webpage for a client that pulls PO data out of a table and lists the info on a page. Each line of the output has a checkbox next to it. I want the user to be able to check either one or multiple checkboxes and then click the submit button and go to a page that lists ONLY those checked PO items.

My problem is Ive hitten a mental block on how to properly handle the mutliple checkboxes. What I've done so far is in the loop that prints all the PO items to the browser, I have the checkbox tag like so:

<input type="checkbox" name="poitem" value="<%= rspo("Purno") %>" />

When I click submit (using the get method of the form for easier testing) I am able to properly see the item(s) i have checked in the URL. The way I have it setup obviously is that each checkbox has the same name. So for instance, the Url would look like this:

http://www.somesite.com/default.asp?...m=12&poitem=13

When I response.write(request("poitem")) it gives me:

11, 12, 13

Like a collection. But what is the darn code so that I can access each one specifically? This is ASP btw.

[Tekk]

Well in the interest of giving some future person the answer, here's what I found that is quite simple!

All you need to do is use the split( String ,delimmeter ) command and it will automatically take away the comma and space and place the values into an array.

So going off the above example of 11, 12, 13 I would do this:

arrayNum = split(Request("poitem"), ", ")

This creates the array! Then you just iterate through it like you would any other collection and you're good to go!