Re: help displaying a select list

2000-04-04 Thread Erich L. Markert
Gerald Richter wrote: Yeah, it was a typo... > Shouldn't it be $STATES{$STATE_ABBREVIATIONS[$row]}{name} ? > > [- @STATE_ABBREVIATIONS = sort keys %STATES -] > > [+ > $STATES{$abr}{name}+] > Works like a champ! Thanks Gerald. -- __

RE: [Fwd: tag wish list [LONG]]

2000-04-04 Thread Gerald Richter
> yes. i left out that part. i actually had abandoned most of the concepts > related to that. but i will include them here for completeness. > > I was thinking that the ID would be available > in a variable in embperl such as $id. subroutines could then use it > to determine output. [...] For

RE: help displaying a select list

2000-04-04 Thread Gerald Richter
> > I can get a select list to work using the vars @STATE_ABBREVIATIONS, > @STATE_NAMES which are retrieved from %STATES. To retrieve a value from > this hash I would enter: > $STATES{'NY'}{'name'} or $STATES{'NY'}{'code'}... > > If I don't care about the list order then the following works fine:

Re: help displaying a select list

2000-04-04 Thread ___cliff rayman___
from your own example - don't you need? $STATES{$STATE_ABBREVIATIONS[$row]}{'name'} cliff rayman genwax.com "Erich L. Markert" wrote: > > I attempted to do: $STATES{$STATE_ABBREVIATIONS[$row]} for the list > display name but it came back empty. Can something like this be done by > HTMLEmbperl

help displaying a select list

2000-04-04 Thread Erich L. Markert
I can get a select list to work using the vars @STATE_ABBREVIATIONS, @STATE_NAMES which are retrieved from %STATES. To retrieve a value from this hash I would enter: $STATES{'NY'}{'name'} or $STATES{'NY'}{'code'}... If I don't care about the list order then the following works fine: $S

Re: [Fwd: tag wish list [LONG]]

2000-04-04 Thread ___cliff rayman___
Gerald Richter wrote: > > > Another possibility would be fixing the old and new syntax: > > <%+ $ref->[$row]{$fieldvar} +%>[# EXAMPLE TEXT #] > > this is a little bit short and (maybe) easier to read (but has at least four > characters ([##]) > this still would not work for my unit of measure e

RE: [Fwd: tag wish list [LONG]]

2000-04-04 Thread Gerald Richter
Cliff, > > > we are using dreamweaver at our site, and it does not > mix well with embperl. since dreamweaver does not > recognize the embperl tags, it renders them in the gui > design window as text. > Yes, that is the intented way it should do... > > using a standard tag such as <% > and coup