I want to do certain things if -e $info, but I'm getting uninitialized value errors on the code inside the if statements. The only reason I would get the error is if $info doesn't exist, but in that case the if statement shouldn't continue. Right?

I've tried this: 

if ((-e $info) and ($query =~ /support/))
{
open (FILE, $info) or die "Can't open file!";
        print while <FILE>; 
            close FILE;

           }


if ((-e $info) and ($query ne /support/))
{
    print "<a href\=\"$webdir/cgi-bin/getprods.pl?$prodlisting\">"; 
    print "Product Listing</a><br><br>";
    open (FILE, $info) or die "Can't open file!";
        print while <FILE>; 
            close FILE;

           }

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and this 
if (-e $info)
{

if ((-e $info) and ($query =~ /support/))
{
open (FILE, $info) or die "Can't open file!";
        print while <FILE>; 
            close FILE;

           }


if ((-e $info) and ($query ne /support/))
{
    print "<a href\=\"$webdir/cgi-bin/getprods.pl?$prodlisting\">"; 
    print "Product Listing</a><br><br>";
    open (FILE, $info) or die "Can't open file!";
        print while <FILE>; 
            close FILE;

           }
}

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And, another problem:
If I use: 
if ((-e $info) and ($query ne /support/))

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it returns true no matter what (with ne)

but if I use an arithmatice operator it returns false, when it should, but gives me an error message about using the wrong type of operator.

Thank you

In reply to if statement/uninitialized value by malaga

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