Hello davies,

> It seems to me to be inelegant to repeat undef

No, is not. Compiler does not bother with elegance ;)

Anyway I suspect you cannot avoid them repeated: you are are in left side of an assignement, and inside a my declaration: no array (well you mean list?) can be there.

PS

An eventual list as second (or whatever..) element in the assignement will slurp everything 


perl -e "$str = 'a b c d e f g';@arr=(1,2,3,4,5); ($key, @arr, $val) =
+ split(/\s+/, $str); print  qq($key $val\n@arr\n)"

a
b c d e f g

# even if the array is presized:

perl -e "$str = 'a b c d e f g';$#arr=4; ($key, @arr, $val) = split(/\
+s+/, $str); print  qq($key $val\n@arr\n)"

a
b c d e f g

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In reply to Re: Avoiding repeated undefs by Discipulus
in thread [Solved] Avoiding repeated undefs by davies

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