I'm working on a report to be run with Perl that creates a comma-separated text file. Initially I had it set to parse out an array and fill in values at certain slices based on what it is. At first, if the particular value was not present, it would create an empty field. No problem at all with this, but in thinking about it, I decided to have the array "auto-filled" with 'N/A' so that instead of a blank, we would have 'N/A' if there was no value for the particular field. What I have below does the trick quite nicely, but I'm wondering if there might not be a better way to accomplish this:

my @list=split (/,/, 'N/A,' x 14);

This is simply what I came up with off the top of my head in about 30 seconds. Are there other ways of accomplishing this? Something that might avoid doing the split.

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