On Friday 08 June 2001 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > even when defining it as my %formdata; i still get the same error. i > believe that i have tried it as > > my %formdata; > my $formdata; > > the only other variable reference in that line is to $action, which has a > my statement. > Declaring variable with my() does not assign a value. It merely declares a variable. If you declare scalar variable, i.e. $action, it will have undefined value until you assign something non-undefined to it. When you declare a hash as my %formdata, it will be empty, the same applies to @array. Is it clearer now? -- Ondrej Par Internet Securities Software Engineer e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +420 2 222 543 45 ext. 112
