Hello All,

I'm trying to add a drop down menu in my Perl shopping cart to select the credit card expiration year during checkout, but I'm having a hard time with Perl. I'm trying to generate an option list showing the next 9 years. Here's what I have so far:

($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset, $dayOfWeek
+, $dayOfYear, $daylightSavings) = localtime();
$year = 1900 + $yearOffset;

print '<select name="year">'; 
for ($year ; $year < $year + 9 ; $year++) { 
print "<option value=\"$year\">$year</option>\n"; 
} 
print '</select>';

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Would someone be willing to help me with this? I'm sure this code is not correct. Also, how would you display the menu on an HTML page? I realize that this is over my head, but I'd really like to do this.

Thanks

In reply to Drop Down Year List by tedspinkle

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