Hi Rick, On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:14:59 -0500 Rick T <p...@reason.net> wrote:
> I’m sure this is a “newbie question,” but I am only a shade above that status > and would appreciate some clarification. > > I have > > use TEMPLATE > do you mean https://metacpan.org/pod/Template ? > in my code to control whether the attribute > > selected > > appears with one of the < options> of the list following <select> in my > served html document. Here’s one line from that list > > <option value="1" [% bool_full_selected %]> Full Course (1 credit)</option> > > My code can easily replace the correct var with ‘selected’ and the other vars > on the list with a blank. But what should that blank be? > > Should I make it an empty string, a space, undef, or something else? I can > try them out to see what will work (perhaps all will work), but I want to > know what is considered best practice and why. > an empty string should be fine. > Perhaps there’s even a whole better way to approach this! I will be grateful > to chew over any and all comments you experienced people send me. Thanks! > > Rick Triplett -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody of "The Fountainhead" - http://shlom.in/towtf I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous. — Source unknown via Nadav Har’El and fortune-mod Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
