correct. request.getParameter(String) returns only the first element of the
array in cases like this.

Jeroen T. Wenting
jwenting@h...

Murphy was wrong, things that can't go wrong will anyway

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Huss [mailto:richardh@w...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 17:52
> To: Pro_JavaServer_Pages
> Subject: [pro_jsp] Re: Multiple selects with JSP
>
>
> > Is there a way to parse multiple selects in JSP from the following HTML
> > select input?
> >
> > <select name="select" size="10" multiple>
> > <option>1</option>
> > <option>2</option>
> > <option>3</option>
> > <option>4</option>
> > <option>5</option>
> > <option>6</option>
> > <option>7</option>
> > <option>8</option>
> > <option>9</option>
> > <option>10</option>
> > </select>
> >
> > When I print the following for debuggin purposes, it only
> prints the first
> > selected item:
> > [<%=request.getParameter("select")%>]
>
> I think you need to use request.getParameterValues() rather than
> request.getParameter(); this returns an array of String objects.
>
> Richard Huss
> Technical Editor, Wrox Press Ltd
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