Hello All,

I need help with a chomp question please.
My form asks the user to select a field name from a radio_group, which is then sent to a textarea. I haven't included all the code for ease of reading but the following lines are inside a start_multipart_form and the textarea insertion is carried out after a button press.
print $query->radio_group(-name=>'fields',-value=>[ @array ]);
chomp($field1 = $query->param('fields'));
$condition = "field \n" . $field1 . " : " . "="; #lots more at the end
+ of the string, but not relevant to the question.
print $query->textarea( -name=>'finalCond',-value=>$condition,-rows=>1
+5,-cols=>80,-force=>1);

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The first time the user selects the field, the chomp works fine, so the textarea would contain e.g.
age : = 55
But the second and subsequent times the chomp fails and the textarea would contain
age
: = 55
I don't want to see a newline between 'age' and ':'.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

In reply to chomp works but then doesn't?? by amulcahy

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