uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Adedayo Adeyeye
Hello, I'm getting an error when trying to run a script. Part of the scripts is Line 10 my $action = param('form_action'); . Line 14 Search_DB() if($action eq 'search'); The error I get is: [Tue Nov 1 16:28:41 2005] connect_script.cgi: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Devers
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. -- Chris Devers -- To

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread DBSMITH
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Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Sara
my $action = param('form_action') || 'any_default_value'; HTH, Sara. - Original Message - From: Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adedayo Adeyeye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: beginners-cgi@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:42 PM Subject: Re: uninitialized variable On Tue, 1

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from Perl Best Practices use my $action = param('form_action') | | q{ } instead of or ' ' Good catch. Yes, that's clearer than simple apostrophes. However, you probably didn't really mean | | over ||, right ? :-) I still think

RE: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Dave Doyle
On Tuesday, November 01, 2005 Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from Perl Best Practices use my $action = param('form_action') | | q{ } instead of or ' ' Good catch. Yes, that's clearer than simple apostrophes. However, you probably didn't really

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread DBSMITH
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Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Shawn Corey
Adedayo Adeyeye wrote: Hello, I'm getting an error when trying to run a script. Part of the scripts is Line 10 my $action = param('form_action'); . Line 14 Search_DB() if($action eq 'search'); The error I get is: [Tue Nov 1 16:28:41 2005] connect_script.cgi: Use of uninitialized

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread David Dorward
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.

RE: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Adedayo Adeyeye
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

RE: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Adedayo Adeyeye wrote: 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

RE: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Adedayo Adeyeye
Thanks once again. I'm running this script on two different machines, both separate from the machine the Database is running on. It works on one Server and it fails on the other. I believe that, it's trying to connect to a local database on the system it fails rather than connecting to an