Hi Monks!

This test script is to ask what would be an alternative and why I get this warning message:
Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in string eq at /usr/local/share/perl5/CGI.pm line 2209. if I use "-w".
If I remove the "-w" and use instead "use warnings" I don't get the warning, is it because of CGI.pm been deprecated?
The version of Perl I have is v5.10.1
Any suggestions?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser set_message );

my $q = new CGI;

print $q->header();

my $msg   = escapeHTML( scalar $q->param( 'msg' )) || 'No Msg';
my $error = escapeHTML( scalar $q->param( 'error' )) || ' No error';

my $error_msg = ($msg) ? $msg : ($error) ? $error : '';

print "<br><br>Msgs: $error_msg <br><br>";

exit;

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Warnings using -w by Anonymous Monk

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