in reply to How to retrieve information from radio buttons

Hi.

Radio buttons are designed so you can only select one of them at a time ( unlike checkboxes ). If you write some code like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );

my $name;
my $favorite_food;
my $q = new CGI;
$name = $q->param("name");
$favorite_food = $q->param("favorite_food");

print <<EOF;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H4>Thank you $name. I also like $favorite_food.</H4>
</BODY>
</HTML>

EOF

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If name and favorite_food were designated as fields originating from radio buttons, their 'name/value' would be stored in the respective variables. Hope this helps, -DK

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