[bruce343434]

I get that, but your initial comment implied you were about to showcase a counter to "Hundreds of lines just to grab a query parameter from a URL", but instead you showed "Poorly and incompletely parsing a single parameter can be done in less than 100 lines".

You said you allocated 5 minutes max to this snippet, well in php this would be 5 seconds and 1 line. And it would be a proper solution.

    $name = $_GET['name'] ?? SOME_DEFAULT;

[1718627440]

And in the code in C it looks like this, which is also a proper solution, I did not measure the time, it took me to write that.

    name = cgiGetValue (cgi, "name");
    if (!name) name = SOME_DEFAULT;

If you allow for GCC extensions, it looks like this:

    name = cgiGetValue (cgi, "name") ?: SOME_DEFAULT;

[shakna]

That would fail on a user supplying a multiple where you don't expect.

> If multiple fields are used (i.e. a variable that may contain several values) the value returned contains all these values concatenated together with a newline character as separator.