foreach $key (@ordnames) { $value = $FORM{$key}; next unless $value; # added this line # get rid of ^M and stuff $value =~ s/\x0d\x0a/ /g; $value =~ s/[\x0a\x0d]/ /g; unless ( $key eq "recipient" || $key eq "recipients" || $key eq "subject" || $key eq "redirect_to" || $key eq "validate" || $key eq "email_field" || $key eq "error_head" || $key eq "error_foot" ) { $outmail .= qq|$key:\t\t$value\n|; # add each key and a tab to datastring $outdata .= qq|$value\t|; } }