I don't understand my $checkbox = param($word[0]). Let's say I've just hit the submit button and I'm in EnrollStudentsPL.cgi. I'm trying to use if else statements so that I can say "if arabic was checked then do this/ else do nothing". Using $word[0] as the parameter doesn't work because I'm using a subroutine to make each checkbox for over 15 classes. I've tried tried to use things such as "my $checkbox = param('ARAB_1016') (ARAB_1016 is what $word[0] would be equal to on its first pass through the subroutine) and then using if $checkbox.length > 0 to see if it was checked (that was recommended by an online source I found) however nothing I've tried to that effect works, and was wondering what the actual syntax I would need to use in "EnrollStudentsPL.cgi" so that I could see which of the classes was checked.

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