Hi,

when I have a form with several checkboxes like that: 

<input type=checkbox name=lookup value="exact" checked> <% _('exact') 
+%><br>
                 <input type=checkbox name=lookup value="partof"> <% _
+('part-of') %><br>
                 <input type=checkbox name=lookup value="morph"> <% _(
+'morphology') %><br>
                 <input type=checkbox name=lookup value="fuzzy"> <% _(
+'fuzzy') %><br>
                 <input type=checkbox name=lookup value="regex"> <% _(
+'regex') %>

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When trying to process it under Mason I stumble about really kludgy processing: If none or only one checkbox is checked, $ARGS{lookup} behaves like a scalar where the value is the value of the checkbox.

BUT

If more than one checkboxes are checked, $ARGS{lookup} is a reference to an array. An ARRAY? Hell how should I know, which element index corresponds to what value? If I check exact and partof, $ARGS{lookup}[1] is "partof", but if I check exact and morphology, $ARGS{lookup}[1] is "morph".

There must be a better / working way to solve this!?

Bye
 PetaMem     All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

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