doh, got it in one.

it was not in fact importing correctly, because of a bad method setup. In the print_forms.pm file it had up near the top something that i didn't notice until i added the following line to server.pm:

  if (eval { require $method }) {
    $method =~ s/^functions\/(.*)\.pm$/$1/;
    eval "import functions::${method}";
    die $@ if $@;     # added this, which gave me the error message i 
+needed...
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After running it i got the error message "function commit redefined", which told me the error right away! i promptly opened the print_forms.pm file and told it to EXPORT print_forms instead of commit (oops, i'm usually much better at changing things after a copy/paste :-(

So that fixed the problem, but why was it infinite looping? Why didn't it stop after one iteration?

jynx

PS i can't believe i, yet again, made the "select is broken" error. i thought i had progressed past that stage. grrr...

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