That could get ugly if anything in @foo contains characters that should be escaped such as > or " ... something CGI.pm's popup_menu will handle for you automatically.

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my %colours = (
  '#008000' => 'Green',   '#808000' => '> Olive',
  '#00FF00' => '> Lime',  '#008080' => '> Teal',
);

print header,
  popup_menu(
    -name   => 'colour',
    -labels => \%colours,
    -values => [ sort keys %colours ],
  );

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Also, if you're using DBI.pm and don't plan on labeling your <SELECT> values, then you can just pass in the output from DBI.pm's selectall_arrayref method.

print popup_menu(
  -name   => 'colours'
  -values => $dbh->selectall_arrayref('SELECT name FROM colour'),
);

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    --k.


In reply to Re: Re: mysql values in select box by Kanji
in thread mysql values in select box by drivle

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