Thanks to all who've replied so far! Your comments/opinions are all helping!

However, I've just come across the same situation as before, and I still think it's a memory issue with the server!?!

Situation: library.cgi file contains the usual. One sub is this: 

#####################################################
sub build_input_textbox{
#####################################################
    my ( $INPUT_type,$INPUT_name,$INPUT_value,$INPUT_class,$INPUT_styl
+e,$INPUT_js,$INPUT_max_length ) = (shift,shift,shift,shift,shift,shif
+t,shift);

    my $inbox = qq¿<INPUT TYPE="$INPUT_type" NAME="$INPUT_name" ¿; 
    $inbox .= ($INPUT_value ne "") ? qq¿VALUE="$INPUT_value" ¿ : "" ; 
    $inbox .= ($INPUT_class ne "") ? qq¿CLASS="$INPUT_class" ¿ : "" ; 
    $inbox .= ($INPUT_style ne "") ? qq¿STYLE="$INPUT_style" ¿ : "" ; 
    $inbox .= ($INPUT_max_length ne "") ? qq¿MAXLENGTH="$INPUT_max_len
+gth" ¿ : "" ; 
    $inbox .= ($INPUT_js ne "") ? qq¿$INPUT_js ¿ : "" ; 
    $inbox .= qq¿ >\n¿;

    return $inbox;
}

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At the end of one of my scripts, I have the following: 

    $my_buttons .= build_input_textbox("hidden","m0","$m0");
    $my_buttons .= build_input_textbox("hidden","m1","$m1");
    $my_buttons .= build_input_textbox("hidden","do","save");
    $my_buttons .= build_input_textbox("hidden","act","$act");
    $my_buttons .= build_input_textbox("hidden","site_uid","$SITE_UNIQ
+UE_ID");
    $my_buttons .= build_input_textbox("hidden","what","new_contact");

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Running under strict with fatalsToBrowser etc..., the script does not terminate, there is no error, nothing in the error_log file, $my_buttons has been declared, the values passed ($m0, $m1 etc.) are OK, and the only HTML that's received stops at the <body> tag. Yet if I comment out 5 lines - any 5 lines will do, the script works! Comment out 4 lines, it fails! Blank screen!

Am I really being stupid on this one?!? Could it be something other than a server issue?

From a human point of view, I suppose there is quite a lot going on further up the script. The way I'm doing things is to assign output to $vars, then load a template file and s/<MY_TAG\>/$my_tag/g; substitute the necessary bits. Right or wrong, thats the way I'm doing it!

Hense this is why I think it's a server issue - my code works up to a point. Add a bit more onto the end of a variable, and it fails! :-|

Clues anyone?

In reply to Re: strict, debug and global variables by meetn2veg
in thread strict, debug and global variables by meetn2veg

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