Submitted Dropdown Lists Handled as Lists or Arrays? 1

[ChefSausage]

How does ASP handle listbox values when passed through a submitted form? Does it create an array or list of the values. I'm going on the fact of my dropdown allowing multiple selections. How would the syntax for it look, too?

 

[Tarwn]

It passes them as a comma delimited string. Actually, in reality, it is comma-space delimited. The easiest way to handle this is to split them into an array on that comma-space delimiter:

Example Form:
<form method=&quot;POST&quot; action=&quot;myPage.asp&quot;>
<select name=&quot;selColors&quot; multiple>
   <option>Blue</option>
   <option>Red</option>
   <option>Green</option>
   <option>Yeller</option>
</select>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

Example Processing:
Dim colors, i
colors = Split(Request.Form(&quot;selColors&quot;),&quot;, &quot;)
For i = 0 to UBound(colors)
   Response.Write colors(i) & &quot;<br>&quot;
Next

I only included the form to make the processing make more sense, I was pretty sure you had that part handled already

-Tarwn

_{01010100 01101001 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101111 01101011 00101110 01100011 01101111 01101101}
^{29 3K 10 3D 3L 3J 3K 10 32 35 10 3E 39 33 35 10 3K 3F 10 38 31 3M 35 10 36 3I 35 35 10 3K 39 3D 35 10 1Q 19}
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[ChefSausage]

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.