well.. it seems that the server is f**ing with me... I don't know what is going on...
I tried to debug the code by using this code 

foreach $key (sort(keys %ENV)) {
    print "$key = $ENV{$key}<br>\n";
}

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so I got this output: 
DOCUMENT_ROOT = /data1/virtualave.net/lezar
GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT = */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING = gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-us
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL = max-stale=0
HTTP_COOKIE = p_go2id=UE5dCG1Pd76kk/ZxDmBBgw
HTTP_HOST = lezar.virtualave.net
HTTP_REFERER = http://lezar.org/index2.cgi?Front
HTTP_USER_AGENT = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigEx
+t)
PATH = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
QUERY_STRING = 
REMOTE_ADDR = 209.239.68.247
REMOTE_PORT = 34052
REQUEST_METHOD = GET
REQUEST_URI = /index2.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME = /data1/va/lezar/index2.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME = /index2.cgi
SCRIPT_URI = http://lezar.virtualave.net/index2.cgi
SCRIPT_URL = /index2.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN = webmaster@virtualave.net
SERVER_NAME = lezar.virtualave.net
SERVER_PORT = 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL = HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE = Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)

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as you can see, the QUERY_STRING appears blank... I don't know what is really going on, it seems like something is wrong with Virtual Avenue
so before I go on and work on simplifying the code, I have to see what the heck is going on with the server, and their customer support is not quite satisfying

STILL STUCK
Chady
http://chady.net

In reply to Still Stuck by Chady
in thread Stuck by Anonymous Monk

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