Either $month or $year1 has not been assigned a value.

When an error like this occurs with a variable in a double-quoted string (or its ilk) Perl refers to it as concatenation. It's as if you had typed 

     "My name is " . $myname
instead of 
     "My name is $myname"
If you want to know which one it is, simply print out each one on lines just before the error line. Or sometimes if I think this may happen again some day. I alter the code (with a reminder of why I left it that way) and just leave it as: 
                        # my $string = "$month$year1";
my $string = $month;    # separate vars for easier debug
$string .= $year1;      # separate vars for easier debug

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This way I don't need to come back to remove the print trace statements. And if the problem happens again, I can zero in on it immediately.

In reply to Re: Why do I keep getting this error message? by dvergin
in thread Why do I keep getting this error message? by dru145

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