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in thread Initialize multiple variables in one statement

I think the solution might be closer to:

use strict; use warnings; my ($name1, $name2, $name3, $name4, $name5, $name6) = ('') x 6; print "\n $name1, $name2, $name3, $name4, $name5, $name6\n\n";

Using '' x 6 in scalar context just concats the empty string six times yielding just an empty string. So:

use strict; use warnings; my @names = '' x 6; print "$names[2]\n"; __END__ Use of uninitialized value $names[2] in concatenation (.) or string at + ...
Ron

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Re^3: Initialize multiple variables in one statement
by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 23, 2015 at 20:29 UTC

    Nice catch! :)