Hi Monks!

I am trying to have a foreach loop going through a select menu and assign that to a variable to be printed somewhere else, can't get it to work and I know it is possible, any help!!!
Here is the code:
#!/perl/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/html\015\012\015\012"; 

@cities = ("Seattle", "Odense", "Venice", "Lewes", "Olso");

# Here its no problem
print "<select>\n";
print "<option>City Name</option>\n";
foreach $city (sort @cities){
print '<option value="'.$city.'">'.$city.'</option>'."\n";
}
print "</select>\n";


# But here is my nightmare
$test="<select><option>City Name</option>";
foreach $city (sort @cities){

print "<option value=".$city.">".$city."</option>";

}
print "</select>\n";


print $test;

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Thanks a lot!

In reply to Select form Hell! by Anonymous Monk

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