What I don't understand is why you need this code at all. Several people suggested alternatives involving hashes and arrays and for loops and so on, but it seems to me that that misses the point, and that these six lines are completely unnecessary. From the way you're using $FORM{'h04'}, I can see that it is basically a boolean variable, with a true value if a certain box was checked, and a false value if not. What's the point of creating a second variable to record exactly the same information?

For example, if you're planning to test the $checked variables later, like this:

    if ($checked03) { ... }

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then you can just do this instead: 
    if ($FORM{'h03'}) { ... }

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If you're planning to print out the word CHECKED then why not put that logic in the place where the message is printed, instead of creating six separate variables beforehand?

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

In reply to Re: There's got to be a better way? by Dominus
in thread There's got to be a better way? by Anonymous Monk

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