Halo Monks, After I got some help here I've continued to work on my script which generates a HTML table by using only CGI.pm. There are at least 1M reasons why I didn't (couldn't) use HTML::Table or some other module for this purpose, so here I am now. I have a following subroutine in my script 

sub kundNytt {
my @Head = ("Anv. ID", "F\xF6r", "Efter", "Pref", "Bef", "Nytt", "Pr",
+ "F\xF6r", "Kap");
my $trans = $clrNr;
open (TEMP, "<$tempfil") or die "Kan inte \xF6ppna filen $tempfil";

print $qry->start_form(-action => "http://skinnmaskin/cgi-bin/kon.cgi"
+);
print $qry->table(
    { Border => 1, Cellpadding => 5, bordercolor =>"#FFFFFF" },
    Tr(map { th($_) } @Head),
    (map {
        my ($Uid, $Fn, $En, $Pr, $Ank, $Ext, $Or, $Adr) = split /\|/;
        Tr(
            td(textfield('UID',  $Uid, 6)),
            td(textfield('FNA',  $Fn,  20)),
            td(textfield('ENA',  $En,  35)),
            td(textfield('PRE',  $Pr,  10)),
            td(textfield('BEF',  $Ext, 16)),
            td(textfield('NYTT', $Ank, 5)),
      hidden('ADRE', $Addr),
      td(checkbox_group('GRU',['P', 'F', 'K', 'Ej'],'Ej')),
      td(checkbox_group('DOL',['Ja', 'Nej'],'Nej')),
      td(checkbox_group('CMG',['Ja','Nej'],'Nej')),        
      );
       }
    <TEMP>), 
); 
close TEMP;

print $qry->hidden('kontor', $trans);
print $qry->submit('spara', 'Addera rad');
print $qry->submit('spara', 'Spara');
print $qry->end_form;
}

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which generates a HTML table from a csv file containing some data where user can change some data and save it back to a file by clicking on "Spara" key. From "CGI programming with Perl" book I could see that when using checkboxes you don't get neither key nor value if checkbox is unchecked. Then I thought it might be a good point to use radio buttons instead. And when I add those lines of code, then I was able to click only one radio button per column and not per row as I expected (as all td's are mapped within Tr) ?!!? What am I missing here ?

Another question is the behaviour of the checkbox group (named GRU in my case) where I would like "Ej" box to be unchecked if any(or more) of the previous boxes are checked - could I use onCheck here and how ? Or even better, is it possible to "make" checkboxes send a name even if they don't have a value (undef) ?

And at last (but not at least), I was trying to add a row to this table by clicking button "Addera rad". My idea was to add en empty row to a file I'm reading the table from and then call subroutine again. And it works so long that "empty" csv row is created in a file. But then, when I recall this subroutine, I get only one (first) row of a file. What am I missing here ? Now, I know that involving DBI is a perfect match for this database which I get in csv format, but for different reasons I'm not able to use it.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Problems with CGI script behaviour by SerZKO

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