Hi Monks!
I am trying to call a small perl script that has a menu I am using across a bunch of pages in my site. The issue I am having is that when I use this test program:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use URI::Escape;


require "call_b.pl";

my $go_menu = &menu;

#print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

#print $go_menu;

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It gets an error like:
Can't use an undefined value as a SCALAR reference
The error is from the call_b.pl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use URI::Escape;

my $address;

sub menu {

print qq|
    <td>
      <ul> 
        <li><a href="home.pl?contatc=${ uri_escape( $address ) }&amp;s
+elected_tab=a" target="_top">home<b></b></a></li> 
        <li><a href="home.pl?contatc=${ uri_escape( $address ) }&amp;s
+elected_tab=b" target="_top"><span></span>about<b></b></a></li> 
        <li><a href="home.pl?contatc=${ uri_escape( $address ) }&amp;s
+elected_tab=c" target="_top"><span></span>contact<b></b></a></li>    
+           
      </ul>
    </td>
|;

}
1;

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Is this a glob error? What the best way to do this, if anyonw knows it would be nice!
Thanks for looking!

In reply to SCALAR ref error help! by Anonymous Monk

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