Hi Monk,
I have a cgi perl script in which I have the following HTML form data embedded. Please let me know how can I retrieve the "StatusFilterSelect" value through cgi object 

<form name="frmStatusFilter" method="GET" action="http://webserver.com
+:8010/cgi-bin/mycgi.pl">

Choose Filter:<select name="StatusFilterSelect" onChange="frmStatusFil
+ter.submit()">

<option>Show with status</option>
<option>Show all</option>

</select>

</form>

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I am trying with the following, but not working Please help. Thanks in advance. 

my $q = new CGI;
my $status = $q->param('StatusFilterSelect');

$q->html("status is $status"); ## not showing any value

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$status is not showing anything. Please assume I am not making any syntax error. Is this how to extract the value in chi perl. Is my approach right?

In reply to How to extract a form data in cgi perl by ghosh123

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