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in thread how to post multiple select list through LWP::agent

thanks for your reply ,but the unquoted select1 select2 will generate syntax error . The Source code of the form webpage I want to query is written in php as follows 
...
<form name="geneCompareTwo" method="post" action="geneCompareTwo2.php"
+>
...
<select name="ontologies[]" multiple="yes"    size="4">
<option selected value="All">All</option>
<option value="biological_process">Biological Process</option>
<option value="cellular_component">Cellular Component</option>
<option value="molecular_function">Molecular Function</option>
</select>

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if I want to simulate http query using lwp method as follows 
my $response=$browser->post($url,["ontologies[]" => "ALL"])

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it still doesn't work

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Re^3: how to post multiple select list through LWP::agent
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 10, 2008 at 04:51 UTC

    thanks for your reply ,but the unquoted select1 select2 will generate syntax error

    That's not true! Quoting of identifiers followed by "=>" is optional. See perlop and perldata. 

    use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper qw( Dumper );

print Dumper
     [ select1 => 'Component_1_1',
       select1 => 'Component_1_2',
       select2 => 'Component_2_3',
     ];

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    >perl 710263.pl
$VAR1 = [
          'select1',
          'Component_1_1',
          'select1',
          'Component_1_2',
          'select2',
          'Component_2_3'
        ];

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    Note that ontologies[] is not an identifier, so you will have to quote that.

    it still doesn't work

    You've misspelled "All". If you still have problems after fixing that one, perhaps the server is expecting other fields you didn't show us or some cookies.

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      Thanks a lot for your help! it finally works
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