I am working with CGI.pm, and am having difficulties getting things to work, it may be a basic perl issue, or it may be something specific to CGI.pm. Here's what I am doing.

I want to use popup_menu to generate an HTML select. I can get this code to work just fine:

print $CGI->popup_menu(-name=>'menu_name', -values=>{'one'=>'eenie', 'two'=>'meenie', 'three'=>'minie'});

(where $CGI was created earlier with $CGI = new CGI;)

This works fine, so now I want to make the hash literal a has variable, so I try this:

%menu_values = {'eenie'=>'one', 'meenie'=>'two', 'minie'=>'three'};
print $CGI->popup_menu(-name=>'menu_name', -values=>%menu_values);

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But what gets generated is this:

<select name="menu_name" > <option value="HASH(0x40132724)">HASH(0x40132724)</option> </select>

Huh? So I turn to my perl book "Learning Perl" published by O'Reilly, and see that it has hash literals in parens. Curious, but I try that, change my {} to (). But, now this is generated:

 <select name="menu_name" three="meenie" one="minie" two> <option value="eenie">eenie</option> </select>

and I'm surprised that my browser even accepts it, but its not right. Please, what am I doing wrong?

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In reply to popup_menu CGI.pm problems by kmullin5016

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