It basically means you used a variable with the value undef in a string concatenation (which is what string interpolation does under the covers)... er, array index in this case, but the warning is emitted whenever an undefined value is used as if it were already defined. "Uninitialized" may be a little misleading because you can still get this warning even if the variable has had a value assigned to it before:

use warnings;
my $str = 'foo';
print "$str\n";  # ok
$str = undef;
print "$str\n";  # emits "uninitialized" warning

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By the way, you can see detailed explanations of pretty much all Perl warnings by checking out the perldiag documentation (run perldoc perldiag).

-- Mike

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Uninitialized Value Warning by thelenm
in thread Uninitialized Value Warning by Anonymous Monk

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