Monks of Perl,
I am attempting to parse multiple values from one form to the next. I have placed hyphens (-) between the values so i can split them and put them into an array. Next i want to compare each element of the array to a value bound from a statement handler. However when performing this it will only match the first element. This is frustrating as when i print the other elements they appear to be the same.

In order to test the loop the values were entered manually, and produced the desired results. This leads me to believe the that the problem is related to the parsing of the values.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

below is some code to demonstrate the problem

# $sites - this variable contains values parsed from the previous form
@array=split( " ", $sites);
if ($array[0] eq "three")
{
print "three ";
}
if ($array1 eq "seven")
{
print "seven ";
}

In reply to Parsing Arrays by jasmine

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