Hola, DK. I didn't understand the change of the word 'field' to "name" so my brain could not successfully interpret a parse of your reply. I am not calling this program from an HTML document that creates a form via a call to a cgi or pl script. I'm actually just running the script directly. And, it was discovered that I could not execute the script with the browser because of simple perms setting (chmod 755 fixed it). While I could execute it as user and root at the O/S, and the owner was nobody, the browser could not execute (possibly because the user is in the set "other"?, not UID or GID.). Anyhow, the issue is resolved. Thanks for being kind enough to reply, DK! Andrew L.

In reply to Re: Debug pukes here. by alietzow
in thread Uninitialised value in string error(was: Debug pukes here.) by Anonymous Monk

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