You seem to be looking for radio_group()

But usually radio buttons are used to select exactly one out of a few alternatives, which makes no sense if you only have one alternative. If you are looking for an on/off-selection, checkbox() is better. There is also a visual difference and you probably will (slightly) confuse users of your webpage if you use a single radio button for an on/off-selection.

I have a few alternatives I just need to create them separately since the name and value are dynamically assigned from db

You can always collect the data in an array so that you later can create the radio group together

Have you looked at what the CGI documentation has to say about "radio"? How about creating a single-item group?

$ perl -MCGI -le " print CGI->radio_group( qw! -name solo -values !, [
+ 123 ] ) "
<label><input type="radio" name="solo" value="123" checked="checked" /
+>123</label>
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is there a way for me to have no labels for my radiobuttons? I mean I want to have a couple of radiobuttons in a matrix and have them be without any labels. I tried something in terms of -labels => '' or -labels => '' and nothing.. how do I make it without labels

sure, don't use CGI for html generation :)

$ perl -MCGI=-no_xhtml -le " print CGI->radio_group( qw! -name solo -v
+alues !, [ 123 ] ) "
<input type="radio" name="solo" value="123" checked >123
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