Thanks for the feedback. I have used CGI.pm to create checkboxes. What I ran into with what you are suggesting is that the labels and values will be the same. If for example my label for an answer to a question is:
BillJ may have been assigned as trustee to the security object which gives him supervisor rights over all NDS objects
I don't want my value to this checkbox to be:
BillJ may have been assigned as trustee to the security object which gives him supervisor rights over all NDS objects
I want it to be 'd', or '3'. Something easier to compare with a correct answer. This also doesn't require as much memory. To use CGI.pm, I would have to set up my labels as a hash, which I'm trying to avoid doing because I haven't been able to get that to work. The problem I've been having using a hash is the syntax for the checkbox_group. It appears that I would have to set the value anyway and have the key in the hash match the value. This is very confusing so if you can explain this to me and show me how to write it that would be much appreciated.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Checkbox values by chriso
in thread Checkbox values by chriso

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