SOLVED: form validation set_message() going nuts "Unable to access an error message corresponding to your field name." e

[eluser]atno[/eluser]
[quote author="boltsabre" date="1305141141"]Have you tried setting the error message for char_check inside that function rather than in your index function? May not be the problem, it just seems a little weird to me to separate your custom validation code across two functions.[/quote]
yes i've tried that and getting the following error as $val is declared on index();
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined variable: val