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I have a script I'm writing for scheduling of employees. It generates a table displaying each hour of the day and marks the scheduled hours. This works with on employee. I need to know how to handle multiple inputs from the form with fields of the same name. The most I can figure is to use foreach with arrays. But I'm not sure how to orrganize it so that it works. In other words, it needs to print the values correctly in separate rows in the table. Here is my code so far.

Thanks.
I also think that my elsif statments could be shorter!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

########################################
# Work Schedule Chart Generator Version 0.01
# By Nick Lafferty
# 
########################################

#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
#warn "this is a complaint";
#die "But this is serious";

#use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

print header;

my ($employee, $date, $sshift, $eshift, $total_shift, $on_shift, $td, 
+$off_shift1, $off_shift2, $name);
$date  = param("date");
$employee = param("employee");
$sshift = param("sshift");
$eshift = param("eshift");
$name = "<TD>$employee</TD>";

# Calculate On shift hours and generate table cells
$total_shift = $eshift - $sshift;
$on_shift = "<TD>d</TD>" x $total_shift;

# Calculate Off Shift hours and generate cells
$td = "<TD></TD>";

if ($sshift eq "8"){
$off_shift1 = "";
}elsif ($sshift eq "9"){
$off_shift1 = "$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "10"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "11"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "12"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "13"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "14"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "15"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "16"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "17"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "18"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "19"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "20"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "21"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "22"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($sshift eq "23"){
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}else{
$off_shift1 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}

if ($eshift eq "8"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "9"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "10"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "11"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "12"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "13"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "14"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "15"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "16"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "17"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "18"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "19"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "20"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "21"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "22"){
$off_shift2 = "$td$td";
}elsif ($eshift eq "23"){
$off_shift2 = "$td";
}else{
$off_shift2 = "";
}

$row = "$name$off_shift1$on_shift$off_shift2";

&table_header;

sub table_header {
print <<HTML;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>b</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE cols=18 width="95%" bgColor=#ccffff border=1>
  <CAPTION>$date</CAPTION>
  <TBODY>
  <TR vAlign=top>
    <TD vAlign=top>Name</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>8:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>9:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>10:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>11:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>12:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>1:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>2:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>3:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>4:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>5:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>6:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>7:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>8:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>9:00</TD>
    <TD vAlign=top>10:00</TD>
    <TD>11:00</TD>
    <TD>12:00</TD></TR>
<TR>$row</TR>
</BODY>
</HTML>

HTML
}
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