>
> You get this warning because $action is undefined. Comparing undefined value
> with something is usually unwanted, so it produces a warning.
>
> You could rewrite it to:
> if (defined($action) && ($action eq 'add')) {
>
> or assign something meaningful to $action before you use it.
>
>
why is $action undefined? i use my $action; earlier in the script
and i thought that the statement $action = $formdata{action};
would take care of assigning a value to $action so that it would
not be undefined.
thanks for your time and input. -charles
