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QUESTION POSED ON: 11 May 2004
I work for a school district, and our special services department needs to compile a "survey" that will ask questions about students' special needs. There will be about 170 questions and the answers will be either yes or no. I want to use radio buttons for the yes or no answers. Once the survey is complete, I want to be able to query only the "yes" answers onto another page. Basically, the "no" needs are to be disregarded. I hope you are able to understand this! What they do now is go through all 170 questions and delete the "no" answers. This is very time consuming, especially for a Special Ed teacher. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

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The answer really depends on how you are collecting the answers. If you are just collecting them and storing them in session variables, then you'll have to have a processing loop on the result page that displays only the questions that received a "yes" response. If you are using a database, then you could have the result page generated using a SQL statement similar to the following: "SELECT * from SurveyResults where Response = 'Yes'". If you are storing the results to a text file, then I would only store the questions that received "Yes" responses (assuming each student gets his/her own file).


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