Re: Odd select box behaviour

Quoting [email protected]:

> 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.
>

LOL!

We all do things like that ... well at least I do them too.  Imagine  
what programming must have been like before compilers had error  
messages?