Getting selected values from a select statement - Java

In article <MTE0b.47223$bo1.35180@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"Tripharn Teki" <telwyn@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have the following code in the HTML
>
><select size="1" name="newtitle">
> <% // Need to fill select with available campuses
> while (titleit.hasNext())
> {
> temp = (String)titleit.next();
> // Check if it is the selected campus already
> if (temp.equals(title))
> {
> // Make it the selected campus by default
> out.println("<option selected>"+temp+"</option>");
> }
> else
> {
> // Add it normally
> out.println("<option>"+temp+"</option>");
> }
> }
>
>Which just fills up a combo box. Now in the JSP on the submit page I have
>
>String[] titleU = request.getParameterNames("newtitle");
>
>If I use following line I get an error...
>
>out.println(titleU[0]);

This shouldn't even compile. getParameterNames()
returns an Enumeration, not an array.

If you mean getParameterValues(), did you remember
the </select>? You don't show it above.

Yea ooops, it was getParameterValues()

But the problem was that in the select statements you need to add
value=blah... which I didn't have...
So essentially in the selectbox you can have someting like Hello World, but
the value can be different, or nothing if you completely miss it out.

Thanks anyway,
Tripharn

"Chris Riesbeck" <riesbeck@cs.northwestern.edu> wrote in message
news:riesbeck-11672D.13080720082003@news.it.northwestern.edu...
> In article <MTE0b.47223$bo1.35180@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "Tripharn Teki" <telwyn@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have the following code in the HTML
> >
> ><select size="1" name="newtitle">
> > <% // Need to fill select with available campuses
> > while (titleit.hasNext())
> > {
> > temp = (String)titleit.next();
> > // Check if it is the selected campus already
> > if (temp.equals(title))
> > {
> > // Make it the selected campus by default
> > out.println("<option selected>"+temp+"</option>");
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > // Add it normally
> > out.println("<option>"+temp+"</option>");
> > }
> > }
> >
> >Which just fills up a combo box. Now in the JSP on the submit page I have
> >
> >String[] titleU = request.getParameterNames("newtitle");
> >
> >If I use following line I get an error...
> >
> >out.println(titleU[0]);
>
> This shouldn't even compile. getParameterNames()
> returns an Enumeration, not an array.
>
> If you mean getParameterValues(), did you remember
> the </select>? You don't show it above.