in reply to Baffled by form behavior

Because you have a comma (,) not a semicolon (;) after your first print line.

Update: A perl -MO=Deparse,-q,-p yourcode.plx may be enlightening as to what exactly is happening.

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Re^2: Baffled by form behavior
by hesco (Deacon) on Dec 15, 2005 at 20:10 UTC
    Thank you so kindly sir. My eyes are crossing on this and I would never have seen that without your help. Much appreciation. I anticipate being able to deliver something working reasonably well soon due to your help.

    Thanks again.

    -- Hugh