Re^2: Extracting selected values from HTML Select Menus

Well I could do, but forgive me for being dim, how would I then find out the selected value in Perl? Don't forget that I then want to use that value to either a:) open a file which correcpsonds to that value or b:)upload that file depending on whether the file exists already or not.

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Re^3: Extracting selected values from HTML Select Menus by bradcathey (Prior) on Mar 14, 2005 at 20:19 UTC
Are you using CGI? `HTML: <form action="filecheck.pl" method="post"> <select name="filename"> <option value=... </select> </form> PERL: use CGI; my $query = new CGI; my $filename = $query->param('filename'); do stuff....` [download] Am I tracking or not? —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply] [d/l]