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Somewhere in your program you have a concatenation, which means to join two things together. It may look like this: 

print 'value = ' . $value;

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or 

print "value = $value";

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. . . or similar.

If $value is "uninitialized" Perl will spit out this error (but only if you have warnings enabled -- you do; good job, otherwise your script would be failing silently!)

So you should always check to see that what you are attempting to concatenate, actually exists: 

if ($value) {
  print "value = " . $value;
} else {
  print 'Yikes! No value for $value.';
}

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In reply to Re: Getting (famous) error during running perl script by 1nickt
in thread Getting (famous) error during running perl script by Kati

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