Ah. Well, it looks like maybe you need to tell perl explicitly that the value of "params('select')" must be treated as a utf8 string -- either that or else the string comparison in your grep statement needs to be done with explicitly declared byte semantics.

In other words, either do this (flag the param value as utf8): 

use Encode;  # add this if you don't have it already

if ( param('select') )  {   #If User selected an item from the drop do
+wn menu
   my $selected_file = decode('utf8', param('select'));
   unless ( grep { $_ eq $selected_file } @display_files ) 
      #If User Selection doesn't match one of the passages then its a 
+Fraud!
   {
      ...

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(updated to fix spelling of "selected_file")

Or else this (do the grep with byte semantics): 

if ( param('select')) {
    use bytes;
    unless ( grep {$_ eq param('select') } @display_files )
      #If User Selection doesn't match one of the passages then its a 
+Fraud!
   {
      ...

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Note that the "use bytes" pragma is lexically scoped: it applies within the block where you put it.

Hope that helps...

In reply to Re^3: somethign wrong with the sumbit by graff
in thread somethign wrong with the sumbit by Nik

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