i'm going crazy....can someone tell me what's going on here? my code: 
print p("line 109");
print start_form({ -action  => "$thisscript",
        -method  => "post" });
print hidden('action','logout');
print submit('Logout');
print end_form;
print p("line 115");

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the resulting HTML: 
line 109
</p>
<form method="post" action="ti_login.pl" enctype="multipart/form-data"
+>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="login"  /><input type="submi
+t" tabindex="1" name="Logout" value="Logout" /><div></div></form><p>
line 115

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why is it assigning the value to the hidden input "action" as "login", when it should be "logout"??

i do have another conditional loop in the script that assigns the hidden input named "action" to the value "login", and that's why i put the silly print lines in to make sure i was not looping out to another part of the code inadvertantly...

any help appreciated, and my apologies in advance for raising such a ridiculous problem to great minds here, but i'm out of ideas!! (and stumped as to what could be happening) TIA

In reply to CGI hidden input value wrongly assigned. by jck

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