in reply to Re: Perl Programming guidelines/rules
in thread Perl Programming guidelines/rules
That's one of the points of use warnings. If you are using uninitialized variables all over the place, then perhaps a review of the code is necessary. Below I have thrown together an example of two scripts that do the exact same thing... except that one produces warnings and one doesn't :)
#!/usr/bin/perl # The 'bad' version - produces warnings use strict; use warnings; my $name; # perhaps some code to get user's name # { ... } print 'My name is ' . $name;#!/usr/bin/perl # The 'good' version - produces no warnings use strict; use warnings; my $name; # perhaps some code to get user's name # { ... } # The key line. Set a default value, even if blank. $name ||= ""; print 'My name is ' . $name;
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