Another typo on my part in my example... I had selected in my actual
code but anyway...
I found out what the problem was. The lookup values used in the select
list were uppercase, the retrieved values from the database were
lowercase. Restoring %fdat worked once I made the cases match.
I have a similar problem with a month select list, but I believe this is
caused by having values like "01" being retrieved and the select list
containing "1".
Gerald Richter wrote:
>
> > I have a routine that restores %fdat to the stored data values in the DB
> > so users can come back and edit a form, but I can't figure out how to
> > get select lists restored.
> >
> > I tried the following:
> >
> > <OPTION VALUE="[+ $abr=$STATE_ABBREVIATIONS[$row]+]"[$ if( (defined
> > $fdat{'state'})
> > && ($fdat{'state'} eq $abr) )$] SELECT[$ endif $]>
> >
> > but this doesn't reset "state" to the value that was retrieved from the
> > database.
>
> Must be "SELECTED" and not SELECT, but it should be enought to simply set
> %fdat to the same values as it was before and Embperl will automaticly
> insert the SELECETED attribut to your OPTION tags.
>
> Gerald
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