in reply to Idiom for setting variables to empty string if capture is undefined?

$_ //='' for my ($c, $d, $e, $f) = 'abcd' =~ /(w)(x)(y)(z)/;
print $c, $d, $e, $f;

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How's this for an idiom ?

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