in reply to You need more coffee when...
This is an interesting coincidence, I was just about to post a meditation regarding a problem that I've just this minute figured out.
use strict; use warnings; my %const; #Initialise params $const{pid} = 1; $const{pidwithzeros} = '0' x (10 - length $const{pid}) . $const{pi +d }, #Check params die "Invalid PID $const{pid}\n" if not $const{pid} =~ /^[0-9]+$/; #Various lines of code removed print $const{pidwithzeros}, "\n";
I was getting an "uninitialized value in print" warning on the final line. The mistake is obviously that the comma at the end of line 8 should be a semi-colon but for the life of me I couldn't see it. To try and find out what was going on I changed the code to the following but this only deepened my confusion:
use strict; use warnings; my %const; #Initialise params $const{pid} = 1; $const{pidwithzeros} = '0' x (10 - length $const{pid}) . $const{pi +d }, #Debug line print $const{pidwithzeros}, "\n"; #Check params die "Invalid PID $const{pid}\n" if not $const{pid} =~ /^[0-9]+$/; #Various lines of code removed print $const{pidwithzeros}, "\n";
With the debug line in the code worked as expected. Without and the error would appear. Confusion reigned. Half an hour of thinking I was going bonkers later and as I was preparing a post to SoPW, I saw it.
Hey hum.
Regards,
Dom.
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Re: Re: You need more coffee when...
by revdiablo (Prior) on Apr 16, 2004 at 21:05 UTC |
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