Hello Monks, I am trying to learn Tk module. I want to have a checkbutton for each US state and upon submit i want to know what checkbuttons have been checked. I was able to get the data entered from the textbox(Entry) but not the checkbuttons. Any help is really appreciated. Thank you Akhila Below is my code approach: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use Tk;


my $mw = new MainWindow;
$mw->geometry("300x300");
$mw->title("Perl Tk Checkbutton");

my $check_frame = $mw->Frame()->pack(-side=>"top");

my $label=$check_frame->Label(-text=>"Enter keywords")->pack(-side=>"t
+op")->pack();
my $entry = $check_frame->Entry()->pack();

#my $chk1 = $check_frame->Checkbutton(-text=>"Alaska",-variable=>"Alas
+ka")->pack();
my $state = "Alaska";
my $chk1 = $check_frame->Checkbutton(-text=>"Alaska",-command=>[\&chec
+k_sub,$state])->pack();
my $chk2 = $check_frame->Checkbutton(-text=>"Michigan",-variable=>"Mic
+higan")->pack();

my $button_frame = $mw->Frame()->pack(-side=>"bottom");

my $ok_button = $button_frame->Button(-text=>"Submit",-command=>\&chec
+k_sub)->pack(-side=>"left");
MainLoop;
sub check_sub{
print $_;
my @names = $entry->get();
print @names;
exit;
}

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