The benefits of using strict are humungeous and it is really well worth doing.

So what to do? Simply type in use strict at the top of your script and wait to get hammered! A couple of hours with a metaphoric sharp pencil should see things well on the way to getting sorted and if you have any residual problems then a further request from this site will see an enthusiastic response, I'm sure.

The bottom line is if it's your script, and you want strict use strict; !