Working with Form Arrays in ColdFusion?

Question

I have no idea how to handle this in ColdFusion 9, I have a form being submitted (POST) with element checkboxes, called items[].

When I do a

Answer 1

See also the second answer here. It describes how to retrieve values from a field with multiple instances on a form as an array. I have to say though, I've been working in CFML for many years, and I've yet to do this myself, or see it done in any app I've worked on. I think that's just because avoiding commas is very much simpler, but if you can't or don't want to work around it that way, it is possible.