Thanks. That's cleared now. I'm also trying to connect to an mssql db from a cgi, and I'm getting the following error:
Cannot connect: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied. (SQL-08001)[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (Connect()). (SQL-01000)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1)Aborting at C:\Savant\cgi-bin\connect_rodopi.cgi line ... Help appreciated. Kind regards Dayo -----Original Message----- From: David Dorward,,, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dorward Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:40 PM To: beginners-cgi@perl.org Subject: Re: uninitialized variable On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Adedayo Adeyeye wrote: > I'm getting an error when trying to run a script. Part of the scripts is > my $action = param('form_action'); > if($action eq 'search'); > The error I get is: > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at connect_rodopi.cgi line 14. Looks more like a warning then an error to me. > How am I supposed to initialize this value? By assigning something to it, but in this case its possibly better to test if something was assigned to it. if (defined $action && $action eq 'search') ... or if (!defined $action) { ... } elsif ($action eq 'search') { ... } -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
