Moody Monks,

Mixed html/perl-cgi question.

In an html form users are to select the publishing years for which they want results. It may be any number of years of the last decade and selections may be non=sequential.

I'm looking for options.

Obvious way is with a <select multiple> element. But the client finds that their users dislike having to fiddle with the shift or ctrl key to make selections.

I could make individual check boxes for each year available, then then the perl is going to be ugly as it looks for the presence of checkbox name-value pairs.

if ($form_values{'year_1'}) {
     push(@years, $form_values{'year_1'}));
}
if ($form_values{'year_2'}) {
     push(@years, $form_values{'year_2'}));
}
.....
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Or some variant that cycles through all form elements looking for anything named "year_x".

I've read of, and tried, giving multiple check boxes the same name, hoping for a delimited list of selected values or something, but that's not what I get. Tehr eis conflicting information on the web about whether this should work or not.

What I want is the user simplicity of checkboxes with the server-side handling simplicity of a multiple select.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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