hi Folks,

I have built a form that dumps everything into a flatfile. I'm trying to clean things up a bit and use better practices.

My problem stems from when I have empty fields (for example checkboxes that are left un-checked etc), they are not being added to the flatfile as a "blank" tab. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong here? Is it the sort that's kicking out my "null" values? 
sub makelog {
        open (LOGFILE, ">>$logfile") or die("Can't Open Log File at $l
+ogfile");
        @FieldNames = sort (keys %FORM);
        foreach $key (@FieldNames) {
                print LOGFILE ("\t"."$FORM{$key}");
        }
        print LOGFILE ("\n");
        close (LOGFILE);
}

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From a rusty perl novice, Thanks!

LakeTrout

Update: It appears that if I add a new line in a text area,things start to go wrong from there. I added this to my split function:
    $value =~ s/%0D%0A/\, /g;
that didn't seem to help either. Here's a snippet: 
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ s/%0D%0A/\, /g;
        ...
}

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In reply to Add Null values to my FlatFile by lakeTrout

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