hello all- just a question concerning convention and accepted syntax. i am writing a script that accepts data from a html form. i am running it against a parsing subroutine to extract the data into a hash. however, i'd now like to start putting some of these values into if/else statements to start certain processes based on the form values. up until now i have been doing: $scalar = $hash{key} and then doing if ( $scalar == "1" ) { i know that this will work, however its a bit tedious for large forms. i am not asking someone to do my homework for me, i am sure that a foreach statement can be written up to do what i am asking. my question is more concerning good etiquette and what i should expect to see in other scripts, or what others would expect to see in mine should i distribute them through the web. thanks! -charles