Re: "uninitialized value in subroutine exit" warning from CGI.pm

I was able to reproduce the problem you describe:

perl -wE 'sub x{say qq|X Called|}; x substr(undef,0,4)'
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Basically, when substr(undef,..) is called as a parameter to a sub{},
it behaves differently than when called without that context.

I.E. it complains when called "solo", but suppresses the warning when called as a parameter.

That's all I have.
No idea on WHY the behaviour is different. I'm sure monks with more (perl) guts will come forth.

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Re^2: "uninitialized value in subroutine exit" warning from CGI.pm by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Nov 10, 2017 at 09:44 UTC
No idea on WHY the behaviour is different. I'm sure monks with more (perl) guts will come forth. Args to subs are treated as lvalues (sort of) because they can be modified within the sub, e.g. `sub f { $_[0] = "abc" } $s = "1234"; f(substr($s, 0, 1)); # $s is now abc234` [download] Dave.	[reply] [d/l]