Yes. More code and a better error description are needed. I thought I had found something in the use of $FORM. Apparently this needs to stay in the code, but we have no idea how that hash is being populated. If you're getting nothing out of the statement $FORM{$qid}, then the cause may be in the %FORM hash, or may be something as simple as what tye suggested - having newline characters hanging off the end of $qid.

Guildenstern
Negaterd character class uber alles!