Hi Folks,

I have my hands on some OLD perl and have a question. It's a CGI that spits out a report from a flat file. Everything was put in this flat file via brute force, like so:

print LOGFILE ("$FORM{filedNameFoo}\t");

That's just great for single entries like textboxes, but I have a few instances of checkboxes and I want to add a comma between them if they are true. I tried the following:

("$FORM{filedNameFoo},\t");

But when it's printed using this:
<tr class='white'><td valign="top"><b>Foo</b></td>
    <td>$fields[22] $fields[23] $fields[24] $fields[25] $fields[26]</t
+d>
</tr>

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Of course I would get results like: foo,,,bar,,raz, etc -- can anyone help me with where/how to put a conditional to only print the comma if true? I've been away from the perl game for a long time, so please bare with me. Thanks!

LakeTrout

In reply to Validate before printing to logfile by lakeTrout

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