OK, Now I got a beautiful form with appropriate checkbox values. To those who have re-asserted my need to understand CGI.pm I agree and the Mouse is in the mail to me now, the Rat was less than helpful.
Problem is that I can't seem to figure why I end up with an empty array no matter whether boxes are checked or not. I am assuming the array is empty cause I always end up with an empty txt file after I submit the form. 0 bytes in size it is. Have I made yet another dopey neophyte error?
Thanks again, and again, and.....
jg
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use CGI;
use CGI ':standard';

use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser /;

my $q = CGI->new();
my $url="http://www.xxxxx.com/xxx/xxx/";
my $path_to_text="/home/xxxxx/www/xxx/xxx/body.txt";
my $this_script_url="http://www.xxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/xxxxx.cgi";
my $post_number;
my @updated_text;
$/="\n\n\n";                  #set the input Record seperator to a tri
+ple newline

if ( $q->param() ) {          #if params are not undef
    # ignore deleted
    next if ( $q->param("box$post_number") );
    # keep the rest
    s/"/"/g;
    s/'/'/g;
    push @updated_text, $_;
    # now update file
    open(FH,">$path_to_text") || die $!;
    print FH join "\n\n\n", @updated_text;
    close(FH);
    print "Location: $url\n\n";

} else {                      #if params are undef
    open (FH, "$path_to_text") or die "where's the damn file? : $!";
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    print qq|<HTML><BODY><center><form method="post" action="$this_scr
+ipt_url">\n
            <TABLE width=600><TR bgcolor=#000066><TD colspan=2 align=c
+enter>
            <font color=#ffffff><h2>Edit Your Posts</h2></font></TD><T
+R><TD>|;
    while (<FH>) {
        next if /^\n+$/;                  #ignore lines which contains
+ only newlines
        $post_number++;
        chomp;
        s/"/&quot;/g;
        s/'/&apos;/g;
        print qq|Delete This Post? \n
            <input type=checkbox name="box$post_number" value=" $_ " c
+hecked><p>
              $_<hr>\n<p>\n<br><br><br>\n|;
      }
      close FH;
      print "</TD></TR><TR bgcolor=#333333><TD align=center colspan=2>
+\n";
      print "<input type=submit name=Submit value=\"Delete Checked Pos
+ts\"></TD>";
      print "</form></center></table></body></html>";
}

exit;

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In reply to Re: Loading $_ as checkbox value when $_ has double quotes in its value by jerrygarciuh
in thread Loading $_ as checkbox value when $_ has double quotes in its value by jerrygarciuh

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