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grep not working as expectedby davidj (Priest) |
on Oct 17, 2006 at 22:14 UTC ( [id://578911]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
davidj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Fellow monks, I have been scratching my head over this trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. For the life of me, I am not seeing it. I am using grep to test the value of a query paramater. The value IS in the list, but grep is not finding it. I hope I have included all the relevant information below. The form part looks like this: After selecting any of the option (in this case sender), I do the following in the cgi script: The output I get is this: At this point I am not modifying in any way the query parameters after they are sent to the script. If I understand grep correctly, I should be getting: If I take this part and put it in a simple script, I works correctly: output: Why am I not getting what is expected? The value is verifiably in the list. The grep syntax is correct. As always your assistance is much appreciated. davidj
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