undefined value error - but why?!!?

[groovygarden]

When I submit the form I have created I get the following error:

Can't call method "param" on an undefined value at
path\cgi-bin\timeresults.pl line 3.

refering to the following line:

$q = new CGI

$search_time= $q->param('thetime');


Is it complaining about the value "thetime"? In the form this value is defined like so:

<SELECT NAME =&quot;thetime&quot; SIZE=1>
<OPTION >--Select a time-->

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong. I've used more or less the same code on a form with TEXT input and it works fine. Am very confused and any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[goBoating]

The complaint you are getting means that the variable '$q' does not exist yet, at least not in an object context. Since that is happening on line 3, I might be able to guess at what your code should look like.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
$search_time = $q->param('thetime');
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html;
print &quot;<p>search time was $search_time</p>\n&quot;;
print $q->end_html;



'Hope that helps.





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