Multiple selection value- Need a small perl script

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

Hi all,
I have a html code containing muliple selection drop down menu. If i choose more than one value and on submission, a perl program should catch the selected values from this form. How can i do that?
html code is as follows
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Multipe </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
<form name="test" method="post" action="/cgi-bin/test.pl">
Multiple Selection <select MULTIPLE name="sel">
<option value="one">one</option>
<option value="two">two</option>
<option value="three">three</option>
<option value="four">four</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
<form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Thanking you rs

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Re: Multiple selection value- Need a small perl script by hmerrill (Friar) on Jan 21, 2004 at 20:29 UTC
Read the perldocs on the CGI.pm module by doing `perldoc CGI` [download] at a command prompt. In there you'll find the pieces for this: `use CGI; # load CGI routines $q = new CGI; # create new CGI object @values = $q->param('foo');` [download] Now, translated to your SELECT box it might look something like this: `use CGI; # load CGI routines $q = new CGI; # create new CGI object @select_values = $q->param('sel');` [download] HTH.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Multiple selection value- Need a small perl script by b10m (Vicar) on Jan 21, 2004 at 20:14 UTC
You probably want to take a look at CGI. Example: `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI qw/:standard/; use Data::Dumper; my $q = new CGI; print header, start_html(); print Dumper $q->param('sel'); print end_html;` [download] -- b10m	[reply] [d/l]