Hi monks, I have written many a CGI in my time but have never incorporated 'multiple selects' in them. This is causing me grief. I can read the multiple selected values in fine into an array but can't split them! I have tried to 'split' the values on many characters but nothing is doing the job. Can anyone help? Also, how could I restict the user to selecting only 2 values from the list?? Heres a snippet of the code. 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w


use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;

print STDOUT $query->header();
print STDOUT $query->start_html;


my @gene1 = $query->param('GS1');

@gene1 = split ('', $gene1);

print STDOUT $gene[0];

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edited: Wed Jan 22 23:37:47 2003 by jeffa - title change (was: CGI fun!)

In reply to Reading multiple values from a selection with CGI.pm by Anonymous Monk

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