Greetings, As I am a neophyte, I am having some trouble hacking a script to do what I want. I am using Kendall Comey's fom_rocessor.pl to gather input from a form. It is composed of mostly radio button selections. The problem is that if a selection is not made for any given question, it is ignored in the script. The script only outputs to my flat file those key/values (collected in @sortedkeys) that are not null. I want to put a comma in place of any answer that was left blank. The code snippet I am working with is below. Thanks for any input (or is that output <g>) 
sub write_form_info    {
open (FORM, ">>$form_info_path") || die ("I am sorry, but I was unable
+ to open the file $form_info_path");
foreach $sortedkeys (@sortedkeys)    {
$sortedkeys =~ s/^\d*\)\s*//;
$sortedkeys =~ s/required-//;
($name, $answer) = split (/\|/, $sortedkeys);
print FORM "$name -- $answer\n";
}
print FORM "\n";
close (FORM);
}

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