Hi, I thank you for your reply but I think I must have been unclear in my question. I have some variables changing Like Klitt is not allwas the same and then it shouldnt print the same either. The below is a bigger exerpt form my script: Is there as yyou can see a smarte way to test the IF's in like a foreach .... Yrs sincerely Jimmy lantz sub do_delkurs { my($nummer) = @_ ; if ($in{"${nummer}General"} ne '') { print HTML_FIL qq!<p><b>Allmän info:</b><PRE>$in{"${nummer}General"}</PRE>!; } print HTML_FIL qq!<p><b>Lärare:</b><br>$in{"${nummer}Larare"}!; if ($in{"${nummer}Larare-email"} ne '') { print HTML_FIL qq!<a href="mailto:$in{"${nummer}Larare-email"}">Email</a></p>!; } if ($in{"${nummer}Larare2"} ne '') { print HTML_FIL qq!$in{"${nummer}Larare2"}!; } Ronald J Kimball wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jimmy Lantz wrote: > > Hi I have a lot of > > stings in the following format in my script : > > > > if ($in{"${nummer}Klitt"} ne '') > > { > > print HTML_FILE qq!<p>KLitt:<PRE>$in{"${nummer}Klitt"}</PRE>!; > > } > > Is there a smarter way to this ? I have like 20 of the Checking if a > > field is left empty Do Error messg. > > and in the above: if it's not Print the line to A File. > > You might do this: > > foreach $key ("${nummer}Klitt", ...) { > if ($in{$key} ne '') { > print HTML_FILE qq!<p>Klitt:<PRE>$in{$key}</PRE>!; > } > } > > Now you've got all your keys listed in the foreach loop, and just one if > statement. > > Ronald ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-webcgi-request@macperl.org