What I would do is declare your field on you previous
page.
Page 1
String xxx = null;
String xxx = yourValue;
Page 2
String yyy = request.getParameter("xxx");
This should work. Another thing if the variable is
whte wrong name and cannot be found it will give you
that error.
--- Amar_singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i am passing a list of checkboxes (having the same)
> in a JSP to a servlet...
> but when i take it into a String[] by
> request.getParameterValues("somename") an exception
> occurs
> as it is null initially..
> How can i make sure that i initialize it to some
> value so that i can avoid
> the exception
> because once the exception i cannot retrieve the
> remaining values
>
> Regards
> Amar Deep Singh
>
>
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