when I run it through the debugger it works fine...

From root@xxx.xxx.com  Tue Apr 26 11:59:59 2005
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:59:51 -0400
From: root <root@xxx.xxx.com>
To: root@xxx.xxx.com
Subject: Form Submission

hello
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but when I run it with

 
use warnings;
use strict;
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I get the following

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at testit.cg
+i line 26.
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line 26 is

print MAIL "$comments\n";
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some thoughts
mabey an if ( defined ($comments) ) then make sure comments are being entered. Also you may want to use the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use warnings;
use strict;
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