Hi,
I have a small code like below. I saved this into a file named as: ./test.pl

If we run this code without using the option -libFile like this:
test.pl -test true
it writes out the message:
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at ./test.pl line 14.

How should I initialize $lib on Line 7? I tried setting it to an empty array but it did not help. Kindly help!
Robert 
  1 #!/usr/bin/perl
  2 use strict;
  3 use warnings;
  4 
  5 use Getopt::Long;
  6 my $test = "true";
  7 my $lib ;
  8 
  9 GetOptions("libFile=s@"   => \$lib,
 10            "test=s"   => \$test,
 11           );
 12 
 13 if($test eq "true") {
 14  if( (scalar @$lib) > 0) {
 15    print "Pass\n";
 16  }
 17 }

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In reply to Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at ./test.pl line 14. by Anonymous Monk

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