Re^2: Initialized Variable getting Uninitialized Warning

But the value wouldn't be defined until it runs through the secondary module. I've tried simply stating:

 my $exception = EcomImportUtilities::ageCheck(
...
...
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 exception => undef
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but that seems to have no affect on the warnings.

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Re^3: Initialized Variable getting Uninitialized Warning by pryrt (Abbot) on Feb 27, 2019 at 18:15 UTC
exception => undef ikegami pointed out the likely culprit. But if you hadn't seen that, then what you just said is the opposite of what I would do after reading >>"Uninitialized" really means "has undef for value"<< in ikegami's first post. My recommendation would have been to figure out why the exception-key's value was being set to undef, not intentionally force it to undef. To do that here, I would have made a print statement (This is step#2 from Basic debugging checklist) `printf STDERR "ref=%s, exception->{exception}=%s\n", $exception, $exception->{exception}//'<undef>';` ... and placed it right before the `return($exception)` in your subroutine and just after the `my $exception = EcomImportUtilities::ageCheck(...)`. This would have shown you that it was properly defined in the sub, but the hashref wasn't getting into the local `$my exception` at all, which would have pointed you toward ikegami's conclusion that the conditional-my was what was messing with you -- or, at least, you could have asked "why is $exception a proper hashref in the sub, and not after the subroutine-call?", at which point, ikegami would have chimed in. Hope this helps you for future debugging (edit: move the step#2 comment to subsequent paragraph, where it fits better)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Initialized Variable getting Uninitialized Warning
by pryrt (Abbot) on Feb 27, 2019 at 18:15 UTC

exception => undef

ikegami pointed out the likely culprit. But if you hadn't seen that, then what you just said is the opposite of what I would do after reading >>"Uninitialized" really means "has undef for value"<< in ikegami's first post. My recommendation would have been to figure out why the exception-key's value was being set to undef, not intentionally force it to undef.

To do that here, I would have made a print statement (This is step#2 from Basic debugging checklist)

printf STDERR "ref=%s, exception->{exception}=%s\n", $exception, $exception->{exception}//'<undef>';

... and placed it right before the return($exception) in your subroutine and just after the my $exception = EcomImportUtilities::ageCheck(...). This would have shown you that it was properly defined in the sub, but the hashref wasn't getting into the local $my exception at all, which would have pointed you toward ikegami's conclusion that the conditional-my was what was messing with you -- or, at least, you could have asked "why is $exception a proper hashref in the sub, and not after the subroutine-call?", at which point, ikegami would have chimed in.

Hope this helps you for future debugging

(edit: move the step#2 comment to subsequent paragraph, where it fits better)

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