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Hi,

I wanted to know how to handle multiple selections of drop down boxes in servlets. Now when I select multiple items in my drop down...when I am actually inserting them into the database, its just inserting the first selection but not all. Is there any specific way to handle this in servlets.

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Are you using request.getParameterValues() as opposed to request.getParameter()?
 
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How are you trying to do this?
 
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Hi,

I am using request.getParameter(). But when I use this its taking only first selection. Do I need to use request.getParameterValues() ?

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Yes, it will return a String[].
 
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Thanks a lot for ur reply. But when I use request.getParameterValues() also its just taking only one selection...but now its just inserting the 2nd selection only but not first.

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getParameterValues returns an array; String[].

You will need to iterate through this array and perform your insert, delete, update, whatever on each of them.
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