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Re^2: searching for clear ways to overwrite the empty string

by graff (Chancellor)
on Apr 20, 2016 at 00:38 UTC ( [id://1160954]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: searching for clear ways to overwrite the empty string
in thread searching for clear ways to overwrite the empty string

That's neat -- and it could be done like this to make sure that both "undef" and "empty string" are handled without warnings:
$_ //= "?" or s/^\z/?/ for ( $this_variable, $that_variable, $another_ +variable );
(UPDATE: But I'm inclined to think that when there's a problem with too many long variable names, it might mean that those variable names really ought to be keys in a hash.)

(updated again to fix the mis-typed operator in the snippet.)

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Re^3: searching for clear ways to overwrite the empty string
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2016 at 00:54 UTC

    Parens not needed.

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