I am a total newbie to perl scripting. Heres what i am trying to do: I am trying to integrate a test management tool with our a bug tracking tool (Jira). As part of that process, i need to create a subset of a larger select list but the indexes on this list need to match those in JIRA in order to get the integration between the tools working. For example, my complete list has: {a, b, c, d, e, f} with indexes 0..5 but i want to create a select list that only has {a, d, f} with indexes 0, 3, 5 such that when user selects say 'd', my test tool should match index 3 with corresponding index in JIRA. Bottomline, rather than creating an indexed list counting from 0 to say 5, i want to be able to specify a specific index for my label a, d and f: Here is what i have so far: 
my @myList = (
    {label => "a", value => '0'},
    {label => "d", value => '3'},
    {label => "f", value => '5'},
    );
    
    $m->out( '<select name="myselectlist">' );     
    for ( @myList)
    {
    $m -> out(qq(<option value=").$_->{value} . qq(">) . $_->{ label }
+ . qq(</option> ));
    }
    $m->out(</select>);

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Results: When i run this, i get the select list alright, but it does not seem list the list is passing comparing indexes with jira. Any help or alternative ways to do this would be truly truly appreciated. I really need this. Thanks J

In reply to Specifying array indexes in select list. by enkomeks

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