Thanx guys - the code jasonk suggested works fine.
Ta for everyone's comments. I have to admit I'm not sure how to check my server error logs <blush>
I use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); and hope that tells me what I need to know

I only started doing CGI scripts last week so I'm still confused about some basic stuff -
I commented out the content-type line because I didn't like it literally
printing Content-type:text/html\n\n in my browser window !

What do you mean I would get an error if I left the Content-type line out ? I don't...
Thanks
basm101

As dws thought it might help to see my code that gets data from the form
here it is
#!/biol/programs/perl/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI qw(:standard);

#print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

my($cgi);

$cgi = new CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print <<EOF;
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>My Database</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="indigo">

<h2>My Database</h2><HR>
<TABLE>
<TR VALIGN="baseline">
    <TD><h3>Enter name</h3></TD>
    <FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="my_server_here">
    <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="querybox" SIZE="50"></TD>
    <TD><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT">
    </FORM>

</TR>
</TABLE>

</BODY>
</HTML>
EOF

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In reply to Re: Re: MySQL/DBI: Error if entry is not in the database by Anonymous Monk
in thread MySQL/DBI: Error if entry is not in the database by basm101

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