Hi.

I need a more efficient way of doing the task I am working on. 
fields =>
{
   'field1' => 'value',
   'field2' => 'value',
   'checkfield' => '1, 2, 3'
}

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The above code fails in WWW::Mechanize because you can't call a field and give it multiple values- I've tried that thinking it would work. I need a way to make checkfield work with multiple values so more than one checkbox is selected at once OR dynamically make the necessary checkfield fields to make it work. Yes, I posted this question a few days ago but I put more thought into this and I can get a solution to work but it's not clean or efficient.

In short: I have an array full of values that I need to inject into checkfield. I never know how many or what they are until runtime so a method of injecting multiple values at once ( 'checkfield' => '1, 2, 3' ) would be perfect! But since I couldn't get that to work I did.. 
@checks = (1, 3, 5); #just inserting some values

my $cnt = 0;
foreach (@checks)
{
  $cnt++;
}

if ($cnt == 1)
{
  fields =>
  {
     'field1' => 'value',
     'field2' => 'value',
     'checkfield' => '1'
  }
}
elsif ($cnt == 2)
{
  fields =>
  {
     'field1' => 'value',
     'field2' => 'value',
     'checkfield' => '1',
     'checkfield' => '3'
  }
}
elsif ($cnt == 3)
{
  fields =>
  {
     'field1' => 'value',
     'field2' => 'value',
     'checkfield' => '1',
     'checkfield' => '3',
     'checkfield' => '5'
  }
}

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Like I said, this way works if I use array values but it's very ugly. Can someone help me make a more efficient solution?

In reply to help make code cleaner by Anonymous Monk

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