RE: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Adedayo Adeyeye
deyeye Cc: Perl Beginners - CGI List Subject: RE: uninitialized variable 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][DBN

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 Drive

RE: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread Adedayo Adeyeye
1, 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

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 1

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 val

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread DBSMITH
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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, yo

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 t

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: Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:42 PM Subje

Re: uninitialized variable

2005-11-01 Thread DBSMITH
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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 unsubscri