Other than "well, don't use said drop down list then", what answer do you expect the receive? You don't tell us what comes from the drop down list, and apparently the one runnable example you give, of which you claim writes to the terminal, isn't an example of the problem you're facing.

Please, if you want to have someone of a chance of getting an answer that's useful to you, make your problem self contained. Don't refer to things that are impossible for us to know how they work, and certainly don't mess up working and non-working examples.

Oh, and please, take the few milliseconds and type 'you' instead of 'u', and learn how to use the shift key.

In reply to Re^3: Adding DD Unix command in Perl by JavaFan
in thread Adding DD Unix command in Perl by asha_mail

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