Hi Monks
I am creating a popup_menu each time I am fetching a new set of values from the database. But I am running into a problem as default values of popup_menus are retained across queries.
I am using a conditional statement as below, please help me with a way so that every time it is created the previous values are not maintained.
I think I am making some syntax error and have to mention it as an array ref but not sure how can I do that while using a conditional statement


while(defined (my $row = $stmt->fetchrow_hashref))
{
   my $x = $row->{CONNECTION};
   my $y = $row->{CARRY};

   my $drop_down =  $cgi->popup_menu(
                -name   => "CHOICE",
                -values => [ 0 .. 6 ],
                -labels => { 0 => 'NO', 1 => 'A', 2 => 'B',
                             3=> 'C', 4 => 'D', 5 => 'E', 6          
                             => 'F' },
                -default => ($row->{CONNECTION} eq 'Y' &&  
                          $row->{CARRY}) ? $row->{CARRY}: 0,
                
            );

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When the above mechanism did not work, I tried the following one as well i.e taking the decision first in an if-else and then assigning the value but it did not work either : 

while(defined (my $row = $stmt->fetchrow_hashref))
{
   my $x = $row->{CONNECTION};
   my $y = $row->{CARRY};
   my $default;
    
   if ($x eq 'Y') {
     if ($y) {
      
        $default = $y;
     }
   }
     


   my $drop_down =  $cgi->popup_menu(
                -name   => "CHOICE",
                -values => [ 0 .. 6 ],
                -labels => { 0 => 'NO', 1 => 'A', 2 => 'B', 
                   3 => 'C', 4 => 'D', 5 => 'E', 6 => 'F' },
                -default => $default,
                
            );

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In reply to popup_menus retaining values across queries by simonz

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