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
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