Monk2b,

The following snippet may not produce what you expect. Although it's no a perl issue, but an HTML form issue.

print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Dennis </OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION SELECTED VALUE=\"people\">alex</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">andrew </OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Irving</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Freddy</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Ken</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Mike</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Tim</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Bob</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Ashley</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Richard</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Terrance</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Ronald</OPTION>";
print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"people\">Phil</OPTION>";
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I think that you are most likely desiring that the value from the popup return a value equal to the name of the string in the popup.

Something more like this:

       print  "<OPTION SELECTED VALUE=\"alex\">alex</OPTION>";
       print  "<OPTION VALUE=\"andrew\">andrew </OPTION>";
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Or in keeping with the above advise about escaping...

       print  q!<OPTION SELECTED VALUE="alex">alex</OPTION>!;
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Otherwise all you'd ever get sent to the target (action=) CGI was "people", not the actual name.

Good luck!