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What is the recommended way to get data from the form object in hook_postProcess?
I looked at the PHP QuickForm documentation and have been trying to use $form->exportValues() but one drawback is that custom fields have numeric suffixes which I have to deal with.

In the wiki examples I see $form->getVar( '_id' ) and I believe that this can return only the class variables of the form in question.
I see that the Core Form class has a get function but it is not clear whether this returns the submitted values, the default values or merged values.

    function get( $name ) {
        return $this->controller->get( $name );
    }
On this page I see only a function called getValue which also doesn't specify whether this returns the submitted values, the default values or merged values
http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm2/docs/latest/HTML_QuickForm2/HTML_QuickForm2_Controller.html

I would really appreciate it if anyone can point me to a sample that addresses this idea of getting the data out.

Lobo,
Thank you for your reply. It is nice to have validation for my approach. Since I was having to pull custom_26_7430 and custom_39_8314 using strpos and the like I thought that I must be using the wrong function.