Hi All,

I have a folder "items" under which I have files like: fruit and animal containing the names of fruits and animals respectively. Now I want to use optgroup select option. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
my @filename = split("\n", `ls items`);

print <<HTML

<html>
<body>
<select>
HTML

foreach(@filename){
print <<HTML
  <optgroup label="$_">
HTML

        open my $info, "items/$_" or die "Could not open $_: $!";
        while( my $line = <$info>)  {
print <<HTML
    <option value="$line">$line</option>
HTML
    }
}

print <<HTML
  </optgroup>
</select>
</body>
</html>

HTML

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Can anyone please suggest me what went wrong. Many thanks in advance !!

Regards, Alok

In reply to optgroup with Perl CGI by alokranjan

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