I often have trouble with nested if/else statements as well and sometimes they can be a bugger to fix. But it looks like you're only missing two }'s.

You're not closing your first and your second IF, that's where the problems occur. So all I did was added a closed bracket after the first and second ELSE. Please see the script below. 

if (param())
{

  my $name     = param("name");
  my $email    = param("email");
  my $phone    = param("phone");
  my $url      = param("url");
  my $requests = param("requests");


  if ($name ne "")
  {
     if ($email ne "")
     {
        if ($requests ne "")
        {
          print "very good!";
        } 
        else
        {
          print "please leave a message";
        } }
     else
     {
        print "please enter your email";
     } }
  else
  {
     print "please enter your name";
  }
}

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sulfericacid

In reply to Re: Syntax errors with {s by sulfericacid
in thread Syntax errors with {s by Anonymous Monk

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