Re: Odd select box behaviour

Shawn Hinchy wrote:
> 
> Quoting Jonathan Mangin <[email protected]>:
> 
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jonathan Mangin" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: Odd select box behaviour
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <[email protected]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:21 PM
>>> Subject: Odd select box behaviour
>>>
>>>
>>> > This one has me stumped, and it shouldn't.
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to validate data from a simple select box:
>>> >
>>> > <select size="1" name="country">
>>> > <option selected value='United States'>United States</option>
>>> > <option value='Canada'>Canada</option>
>>> > </select>
>>> >
>>> > When I do:
>>> >
>>> > foreach my $Item (param())
>>> > {
>>> > my $input=param($Item);
>>> > print "$Item  --$input--<br>\n";
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > the data is printed out with the expected leading and trailing '--'.
>>> >
>>> > But when I try to validate the incoming data:
>>> >
>>> > my $Country=param('country');
>>> > if ($Country ne 'Canada' || $Country ne 'United States')
>>> > {
>>> >    $Status=1;
>>> >    $ErrMsg .= "$Mandatory{country} must be either Canada or United
>>> > States.<br>";
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> Shouldn't that be:
>>>
>>> if ($Country ne 'Canada' && $Country ne 'United States') {
>>
>> No, I guess not.  Ignore me...
>>
> 
> It looks to me like you were right, you want to enter the error block 
> when the selected country does not match both cases, not whether you 
> don't match one or the other - that'll always be true.
> 
> Shawn

OMG! :) Sometimes I wonder how I dress myself. Thank you.