#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @txt = ('cc','cz'); for (@txt) { no warnings 'uninitialized'; if (m/^(.)$1/) { print "True \$_ = |$_| \$1 = |$1|\n"; } else { print "False \$_ = |$_| \$1 = |$1|\n"; } use warnings; }