No, sorry for my ambiguity. Let me be pedantic... The code having a problem was:
printf("%s [ip: $ip] is alive  %.2f ms)\n", gethostbyip($host), 1000 * $duration);

Using three seperate printf statements would have shown that $duration and $host were defined, and that gethostbyip($host) returned an undef.

At that point, you could have asked the question Under what circumstances does gethostbyip return an undef?. Your sample code would have also been only four lines long.

I frequently use lots of printfs (or the debugger) to narrow down a question like this.

In reply to Re^4: Getting "uninitialized value" that I can't figure out... by apl
in thread Getting "uninitialized value" that I can't figure out... by dguntner

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