Dear all,

Thanks you for your assistance in this matter and yes, it was a case of reorganising the sequence of statements.

HOWEVER, the most salient piece of advice that I came across was on another posting elsewhere (sorry, haven't got the link) where it was mentioned that "use CGI" causes all sorts of problems with the POST method and effectively clears the POST buffer before it is referenced. The workaround is to check the buffer via the ENV statements BEFORE implementing the "use CGI" statement. This is now how I do the checks which allow some progress for me. Again, many thanks for the advice and observations

regards, ADB

In reply to Re^2: CGI simple but frustrating fault by gsd4me
in thread CGI simple but frustrating fault by gsd4me

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