Nothing to do with your original question, but you can do the following rewrite
# Exactly equivalent drop-in replacement sub get_my_params { map { defined param( $_ ) ? param( $_ ) : '' } qw( ticket title client next_step o_date o_time ); }
However, better would be to rewrite it as
# Returns a hash, not an array sub get_my_params { map { $_ => defined param( $_ ) ? param( $_ ) : '' } qw( ticket title client next_step o_date o_time ); } # Use this one as so: my %params = get_my_params(); if ( $params{ title } ne '' ) { # Do stuff here. }
The use of a hash is better because you can add new parameters to get_my_params() and the only thing that changes is the new code you add. You don't need to keep track of a bazillion parameter names.

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In reply to Re: Scalar evaluation by dragonchild
in thread Scalar evaluation by mhearse

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