What he means is that if you are running this script locally on your machine, and not through a web server, the environment variables you are trying to use may not be there meaning they are undefined. Try running them through a server and see if you have the same problem.

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Washizu
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Thanks..I fixes all except the read line, any ideas how i can fix that ?

Hi All, I am having real problems sorting out the read( ) line, as it keeps bringing up a unititialized error message - I desperately need to fix this ... is there any way ?

For the $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} error I enclosed that in a if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) { <<>> } tag ...Please let me know if there is any way I can fix the read

I mean that by the time the line is executed, the variable hasn't been given a value.

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