Hi Monks,

I have a very large form that is mailed to several aliases determined by mapping a country name to a region. I have a list of all countries and their respective regions in a text file formatted this way:

...
namerica:united states
samerica:brazil
...
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So North America has an alias, South America has one and so on. In my CGI, I built a pull down from this list from that file and have a sub that maps to the correct regional email alias.

The problem: I need to call the sub that generates the pull down more than once. Here is some sample code to try and reiterate/illustrate what I am trying to accomplish

#the email part of the CGI
...
Country: $param{country}
...
#sub to create HTML pull down
sub generateCountries{
  my (@all_countries, $HTML_String);
open(FILE, "<countries.txt") or die "cannot read file";
   while(<FILE>){
      if(/(.*):(.*)/i){ 
        push @all_countries, $1;
      }
  }
  my $HTML_String = "\t" . '<select name = "country">
        <option name="country" value="">-- Select a Country --</option
+>';
  for(my $i = 0; $i < $#all_countries; $i++){
         $HTML_String .= "\t\t" . '<option value = "' . $all_countries
+[$i] . '">' . $all_countries[$i] . "</option>\n";
 }
  $HTML_String .= "\t</select>";
  return $HTML_String;

#the HTML form call to CGI that prints pull down
<td> Country:</td><td colspan='2'>        
<?pp:CALL:ALL_COUNTRIES?></td></td>
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Any suggestions on how to make this work with out having to write that whole sub over and over again (I need 4 pull downs), so I will end up with something more like this:

...
Country : $param{country}
Country1: $param{country1}
Country2: $param{country2}
...
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Thanks All

CSUhockey3

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