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in thread process multiple rows from form

here is a small example: 
<form name="myform" method="post" action="index.cgi">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="doSomething">
<TMPL_LOOP NAME="LOOP_DATA">
<input name="name<TMPL_VAR NAME=objectid>" value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=compu
+ter>">
<input name="price<TMPL_VAR NAME=objectid>" " value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=pr
+ice>">">
<input name="qty<TMPL_VAR NAME=objectid>" " value="<TMPL_VAR NAME=qty>
+">">
</TMPL>
</form>

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There must be a cleaner solution to process a form like this than the above solution where I append the objectid to the input name attribute. I thought I could use the id attribute somehow but apparently not.

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Re^3: process multiple rows from form
by eric256 (Parson) on Sep 27, 2005 at 14:59 UTC

    I do something similar. Generaly I throw a _ in the name so its 1_price. Then loop over it spliting them out. Probably some easier way to do it, but I've sued something similar to the following.

    my $ids = {};
my @params = $cgi->param();
foreach my $param ( @params ) {
    my ($id, $field) = $param =~ /^(\d+)_(.*)$/;
    $ids->{$id}->{$field} = $cgi->param($param);
}

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    Depending on the values you could get and how you want to handle them you might need to check for the lenght of the return value. YMMV


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