John W. Krahn wrote: > Mathew Snyder wrote: >> I need to populate a select multiple on a web page when it loads with >> a series >> of values. Most of the values will be determined dynamically when the >> code runs >> but some are static. They look like "A - H", "I - P" and "Q - Z". >> The spaces >> are for readability. >> >> What I am doing is declaring an array and assigning the value: >> @array = qw/All "A - H" "I - P" "Q - Z"/; >> and then pushing the to-be-determined values onto the array later on. >> However, >> when I print this all out while testing, I get each letter, hyphen and >> quote as >> individual elements. I've tried escaping different ways to no avail. > > qw/All "A - H" "I - P" "Q - Z"/ > > is the same as saying: > > split ' ', q/All "A - H" "I - P" "Q - Z"/ > > so when using qw// there are no strings just whitespace characters and > non-whitespace characters. What you want is: > > my @array = ( 'All', 'A - H', 'I - P', 'Q - Z' ); > > > > John
Thanks John and Flemming. Works now. Mathew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
