Hello,
I am having difficulty with one aspect of an automated form submission. I have managed to successfully submit text into a "textarea" (tested on a simple webform), however I have not been able to figure out how to select for one of the options in a pull down menu which is required to process the form.
For the submission of text I have used this code 
 my $req = POST 'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi';
[ SEQUENCE => "$string"];

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In the pull down menu there exist 3 parameters to choose from...not sure how to encode my selection for one of these parameters?

Thanks for any help on this issue,
Dr.J

In reply to Automated form submission by dr_jgbn

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