Data conversion help

[vmicchia]

Ok so my company just threw me into this. I'm new to Java and used to php,Javascript. Here's an odd question is it possible to take information that is submitted via a text area with comma seperated values and somehow put them into the values of a text field and submit it? The user would not see the conversion of text area to text field.

I ask this because they already have some code that has textfield entry that has 2 seperate text field values and 10 sets of those fields. They want it so someone can just copy paste into a text area with comma sepperated values.

So I was hoping I could just submit it to the same file because the end results will be the same but obviously the file currently wants text field entries.

[Norm]

is it possible to take information that is submitted via a text area with comma seperated values and somehow put them into the values of a text field and submit it?

What do you mean by "submitted" and "submit it"?

Is this a java application's GUI you are talking about or what?

[vmicchia]

No this is actually on the web page. I mean there is a form with inputs on the page. I would like to narrow that down to 1 text are instead of 20 seerate input fiels then.

Currently they have part number text fields and quantity text fields (10 oof each). They'd like me to make a text area where a customer can copy paste in as many product numbers and quantities as they like seperated by commas. Since it's the same functionality I was hoping I could submit these results to the same page. but currently the pages wants those seperate text area values.
So:
Number:q120 qty:20

turns into
q120,20

[Norm]

Please explain how this relates to java programming. It sounds like javascript.