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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Adedayo Adeyeye wrote:

> my $action = param('form_action');

Try setting a default value when 'form_action' isn't specified:

    my $action = param('form_action') or '';

Or set it to 0, or 'do nothing' or undef, or whatever is appropriate.


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use

my $action = param('form_action') | | q{ }


instead of

or ' '

Derek B. Smith
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