Let's say My user can choose "Male" or "Female" in their input. But I just want to print out "M" or "F" instead of the whole word.

Sorry bugging all the helper here.

There are several ways to do this.

Probably the easiest way would be to add a couple of lines to your default.cfg file:

$gender{'Male'} = "M";
$gender{'Female'} = "F";

You really can put the lines anywhere you want to in the script. I'd probably put them somewhere around where the radio fields are defined.

Then, in html_record, where you want to print out the gender, use

$gender{$rec{'Gender'}}

Change the Gender above to the actual field name you're using for the field.

There are other ways to do it, too -- using "if" statements or just printing out the first letter, but that requires a little more understanding of Perl.

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JPD