Hi,

So I have what I first thought should be a simple task. I have an array of values and need to create a drop down list from them. Then, one of the values needs to be selected by default. I did this:

$countries_dropdown=join ('', map { '<option value="'.$_.'">'.$_.'</op
+tion>' } @country_array);
$countries_dropdown=~s/>$country_array[224}</ selected>$country_array[
+224]</;

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However, this does not work! I worked around it by first assigning $country_array[224] to $temporary, and putting that into the regex, like so:

my $temporary=$country_array[224];
$countries_dropdown=~s/>$temporary</ selected>$temporary</;

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That works, but I have the nagging feeling that it's not the most "elegant" solution. Is there a way to get regex to read the array value?

In reply to Using array variable in regex substitution by tunafish

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