What the other fine monks hath said, plus the following: if you've got a simple list of variable size, you should be thinking "array." It's much less error-prone to let the program do your repetition for you, instead of manually typing in every line. For all we know, you left off a ; or a quote in one of those lines, or the line you've added (re-emphasize the 'for all we know' part =) and that's the source of your trouble. Compare: 

# OK, I'm a bit of a Standards freak, but you get my point =)
print "<select name='reason'>\n";
foreach my $option (@options) {
    # make sure line containing only dashes is selected
    if ( $option =~ /^-+$/ ) {
      print "<option selected='selected'>";
    } else {
      print "<option>";
    }
    print "$option</option>\n";
}

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Now of course that forces you to set up the array beforehand, but that's not very difficult either: 

my @options = ();
while (<DATA>) {
   chomp;
   push @options, $_;
}
# rest of program here, at the very end

__DATA__
-----------------------------------------
Deposits
PPV Dispute
...

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Anyhow, just a kind of general programming note for the future, a good way of reducing bugs is to let the computer repeat stuff for you instead of doing it yourself.

HTH

If not P, what? Q maybe?
"Sidney Morgenbesser"

In reply to Re: Undefined Subroutine by arturo
in thread Undefined Subroutine by KingNerd

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