Passing form varables in a servlet

[Tom Caldwell]

I have a database servlet that displays the query results in a html form so that I can click on a row in the results to kick off a 2nd servlet. This all works fine and both servlets run but I'm unable to pass varables as in >
out.println("... onClick=SubmitForm()... in this case submit servlet # 2
out.println("<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=parmx value=parm1>");
My problem is that a getParameter("parmx") in servlet # 2 always returns parm1 and not the value of parm1 ???
I expected something like this to work
("<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=parmx value="parm1">");
Can't I do it this way???

[Frank Carver]

I don't quit understand whet you are asking, but is it as simple as:

out.println("<INPUT type='hidden' name='parmx' value='" 
  + request.getParameter("parm1") + "'>");

[Tom Caldwell]

Close!! and I didn't think I explained it very well, sorry.
I've already done a getParamer earlier so I'm now just trying to do out.println("<INPUT type='hidden' name='parmx' value='" + parm1 + "'>");
which produces <INPUT type='hidden' name='parmx' value=''> or doesn't pass the value ???
Thanks