Hi Himaja,

still getting the waring mentioned above.

The data you showed doesn't contain any undefs, and the if statement looks correct to me, so the warning must be coming from some other undef value somewhere else in your code. The best thing would be if you could show a Short, Self Contained, Correct Example that reproduces the problem (see also How do I post a question effectively? and Basic debugging checklist).

Regards,
-- Hauke D

> so the warning must be coming from some other undef value somewhere else in your code

Maybe the key doesn't exist in the hash at all?

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
[download]

Hi choroba,

Maybe the key doesn't exist in the hash at all?

The defined check would still catch that and there wouldn't be a warning. And if $cell was undef, the warning would be "Use of uninitialized value $cell in hash element", not "Use of uninitialized value $data in string eq" as the OP posted here.

use warnings;
use strict;

my $sheet = {
    'X92' => '',
    'AA571' => '0.00',
    'AA842' => '0.00',
    'B6' => '0',
    'E47' => 'SRAM (ssbw)',
    'M83' => '',
    'X55' => undef,
    'B29' => '0' };

sub test {
    my $cell = shift;
    if(defined $sheet->{$cell} && length($sheet->{$cell}))
        { print "Yes\n" }
    else { print "No\n" }
}

test(undef);
test('A12');
test('X55');
test('M83');
test('B29');
test('E47');

__END__

Use of uninitialized value $cell in hash element at ...
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
[download]

Regards,
-- Hauke D