in reply to Re^2: Difference between exists and defined
in thread Difference between exists and defined
Hello Veltro,
You are right my example was not clear if I do not add the following part:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use feature 'say'; my @array; $array[0] = undef; # Assigns the value 'undef' to $array[0] $array[3] = 2; # print Dumper \@array; for my $value (@array) { say "Defined: \$array[$value]" if defined $value; } __END__ $ perl test.pl Defined: $array[2]
The reason that this is happening is explained in the documentation exists:
Given an expression that specifies an element of a hash, returns true +if the specified element in the hash has ever been initialized, even +if the corresponding value is undefined.
So if you check the array element with exists and you have manually defined undef to the element then exists will return True. :)
Thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully it will avoid confusion for future reference. :)
BR / Thanos
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