On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:25:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Soheil Shaghaghi)
wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I have a form with a list of countries (dropdown menu)
>The countries are divided into 2 sections:
>For simplicity lets' sue these sets:
>Set 1: U.S. England, Canada, Germany
>Set 2: India, Japan, France, Saint Lucia, Northern Ireland
>The dropdown menu consists of the entire list.
>
>When the user submits the form, I want to check the country against the 2
>sets, and point the user to different sections depending on which set the
>country is chosen.
>
>I know I can do this simple enough and just use the values 0, and 1 for each
>country in each set and check based on those values.
>But since I actually want to use the country somewhere else in the program,
>I am looking for an alternative way to do this.
>Can anyone please tell me how to do this?
You have not made it entirely clear what you want to do, but I
will try to answer your question.
You want a user to select a country from the list, and you want
to know if the country is in set1 or set2, and then later in the program
use the $country value.
How about:
my @arr= qw(U.S., England, Canada, Germany);
my $country = param("COUNTRY");
if ( grep $_ == $country, @arr ) {my $countryset=1}
} else {my $countryset=2}
}
#later in the program you can:
if ($countryset == 1) { print "My country is $country in set 1\n"}
if ($countryset == 2) { print "My country is $country in set 2\n"}
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