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passing whitespace question
thanks for your help, once i removed value=$_ from <option... it worked -
passing whitespace question
what syntax? all i have in the perl generated form is -------- print "<form method=post action=\"/cgi-bin/view.pl\">"; print "<select name=\"loc\">; for(@dirlist) { print "<option value=$_>$_"; } the original static form just is a text box that is used to determine the directory. -
passing whitespace question
I should add that this works fine when I have a pre generated html file, but the page with the form is generated from another Perl script, might that be the problem? Sorry for replying to my own post -
passing whitespace question
I have a website that lists files in a <select> list. My problem is that when it is passed to my perl CGI program, if a file is more than one work [/home/user/hello goodbye.txt] only the first part of the name is passed [/home/user/hello]. I am fairy new to perl and CGI. Help would be...
