well, debugging time it is. i wanted to take out the @required variable completely. so, i wrote this quick little script

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
delete @ENV{qw(IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)};
$ENV{'PATH'} = "/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin";
use CGI;
$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;
$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024;

## grab form input
my $query = CGI->new(); 
my %FORM;

## grab form field and stick values in hash
my @formfields = $query->param;

for my $field(@formfields) {
  $FORM{$field} = $query->param($field);

}


print <<EOF;
Content-type: text/html\n\n
<html>
<head>
  <title>Missed fields!</title>
  <body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
EOF

for my $i(sort keys %FORM) {
  print qq|<li>$i : $FORM{$i}<br>\n|;
}

print <<EOF;
</body>
</html>
EOF

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so once again though, i find myself eyeballing the radio buttons. when running this script, it churns out the values of the form's input. however, after selecting a couple of radio buttons, the return is actually null! as though nothing was passed into the hash at all.

the radio buttons are written via regular html rather than through cgi.pm. an example of the radio button in the html is as follows:

<td width="215">
 <b>
  <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"> 
   Yes 
  <input type="radio" name="16accounts_receivable_pledge" value="yes">
  No 
  <input type="radio" name="16accounts_receivable_pledge" value="no">
  </font>
 </b>
</td>

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would the duplicate naming of the form field be causing problems?

humbly -c

In reply to Re: Re: Does CGI.pm have a limit on information passed? by c
in thread Does CGI.pm have a limit on information passed? by c

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