After a week or so trying to short-circuit the debugging process, I've finally decided to start from the top down and go line by line!

I've seen in lots of places the highly recommended use of use strict; and often accompanied by use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Hey presto! A half-mile long webpage full of Global symbol "$admin_dir" requires explicit package name at index.cgi line 73. etc...

Great starting point I hope for eventually writing "good" code! My first question is this: $admin_dir along with several other variables and arrays are contained within config.lib and "required" at the top of my index.cgi file. Is it necessary, and if so how, to declare all vars and arrays within config.lib as "global" to prevent the error message above?

This, for me, will be a long, on-going process to try and sort out a wierd problem I've currently got - obviously as a result of my lack of experience and my bad coding!

Anyone willing to help a wannabe perl programmer may reply.

Also, any further tips/tuts/url's/debug wrappers etc. will be sought out and read!

Thanks in anticipation.

Richard.

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