Re: [MacPerl] Re: OT: Browsers (was: The State of MacPerl)

[Scott R. Godin]

on 01/31/2001 11:42 PM, Ronald J Kimball at
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> What value would you want $value to have to mean "I gave you this
> attribute, but I actually want you to ignore it"?  All possible values
> already have a meaning.  undef means "Include this attribute without a
> value" and anything else means "Include this attribute with the specified
> value".
> 
> Try this instead:
> 
> $cgi->select({ $value ? (-disabled => undef) : () });

a tad messy, but ok.

The only thing is I've had some difficulty getting the test ? yes : no;
things to work in any CGI.pm script I've tried them in. I will grant the
possibility that I'm not doing them correctly, but I have tried various
times and ways over the last 9 months off and on, as experiments, and always
wind up using an if-then block instead.

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