New to Perl so be nice to me: My 'while' loop creates a comma-delimited string ($str) like: 'Date','Forename','Middle','School' 
while (<>) {
        if ($str eq "") {
           $str = "'" . substr($line,0,$x) . "'";
        }
        else {
           $str = $str . "," .  "'" . substr($line,0,$x) . "'";
        }
}

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I want to create a checkbox_group for this array to have a checkbox for each entry. The code I have creates one checkbox and the entire array is after it. i.e. checkbox 'Date','Forename','Middle','School' 
@array = ($str);
print $query->start_multipart_form("POST","printFields");
print $query->checkbox_group(-name=>'FieldNames',
                             -value=>[ @array ]);
print $query->submit('doWhat','Print Fields');
print $query->end_form;

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If I change the code from 
    @array = ($str);

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to 
    @array = ('Date','Forename','Middle','School');

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it works the way I want it to. i.e. checkbox Date checkbox Forename checkbox Middle checkbox School. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas? AM

In reply to passing an array to a checkbox_group by amulcahy

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