Hi Monks!!
I am trying to use a IF statement in my code and if the variable $ag is not true, I want to print the second option as you can see "No ag were found" But instead I am getting a blank SELECT MENU. Why is that happening, any thoughts on that? Thanks a lot!!!
Here is where the problem in the code is.

my $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT name FROM master WHERE name Like \'%$compan
+y%\' ORDER BY name;";

  if($company){
  print "<td colspan=\"4\" height=\"23\" nowrap>&<SELECT NAME=\"compan
+y\">";
  $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
  $sth->execute() || die $sth->errstr;
  while ($pointer = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
    {
    $ag = $pointer->{'name'};
    $ag_save = $ag;
    
    if($ag){

    print "<OPTION VALUE=$ag_save>$ag_save</OPTION>";
    }else{    
    print "<OPTION>No Ag were found</OPTION>";
    }
    
   }
print "</SELECT>";

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