kamesh3183 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi monks,
I have following tag in html form. The form uses post method to send values to the server.
<select name="users_list"  multiple size="5">{users}</select>

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This tag will provide users with a list to select multiple options. My question is how to get the values selected by users in perl script.
Thanks
kamesh

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Re: how to get multiple options selected in webpage
by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 18, 2005 at 06:25 UTC

    You would use the CGI.pm module, documented here: CGI. It handles the parsing of form input, and with the param() method, hands your script the data passed by the form submission. I really recommend reading the documentation for CGI "cover to cover".


    Dave

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Re: how to get multiple options selected in webpage
by mkirank (Chaplain) on Jan 18, 2005 at 06:52 UTC
    As davido has suggested , go through the CGI docs
    a quick answer to your question ,you can use something like this 
    use CGI;
my $cgi;
my @selected_values;
$cgi = new CGI;
@selected_values = $cgi->param('users_list');

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Re: how to get multiple options selected in webpage
by opensourcer (Monk) on Jan 18, 2005 at 07:05 UTC 
    k here the code to get the users_list

#--in case ur running from windows version of apache ---
#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe 
#-- if ur in linux versions --
#!/usr/bin/perl

#using CGI standard module
use CGI qw(:standard) ;

#$cgi is a reference for CGI module
my $cgi = new CGI;

#this is a header which sends to the browser that the
#content will be text/html
print header();

#now ur copying the selected contents into an array
my @select = $cgi->param('users_list');

#displaying them on the page in one line 
print @select;
# or u can display like this in dirrent lines
for ($i=0; $i <= $#select; $i++)
 {
  print $select[$i], "&lt;br&gt;";
 }

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