However whilst what I have in the called perl program may be wrong - since I can see in the error log I'm getting the error "Can't call method "param" on an undefined value"

$query is undefined because you never created it. Add use strict; and use warnings; to the head of your script. Then decide how you want to use the CGI module: Choose between OOP way and non-OOP way. For the OOP way, create an instance of the CGI class: my $query=CGI->new();. For the non-OOP way, call param() as a function, not as a method, i.e. remove $query->.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Passing 'SELECT MULTIPLE' parameters and CGI by afoken
in thread Passing 'SELECT MULTIPLE' parameters and CGI by viffer

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