I want to use an array of values to fill in a pull down menu selection of a CGI menu; however, when I try to use an array, it only lists the first value. Looking at the CGI input, the menu usually takes something like 
        print "<tr><td><B>Category:</B></td><td>";
        print $query->popup_menu(
                          -name=>'pubcategory',
                    -values=>['a', 'b', 'c'],
                    -default=>'None');
        print "<td></tr>\n";

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I'm trying to put in: 
        print "<tr><td><B>Category:</B></td><td>";
        print $query->popup_menu(
                          -name=>'pubcategory',
                    -values=>@publication_categories,
                    -default=>'None');
        print "<td></tr>\n";

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(@publication_categories is simply generated from http://devo.wi.mit.edu/~dzhao/cgi-bin/pub_cat.txt) However, no matter what I do, it only lists the first value of the array. Should I hack the array into a giant string that looks like ['a','b','c'...]? That seems like an ugly solution. Can anyone help? Thanks

In reply to using an array to propagate a CGI menu by newatperl

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