I am new to perl and am having issues with this script i am using for a syslog server. I am not getting any responses from the original developer and as such bringin my issue to the perl gods for help.

I receive the following error when my program runs:

 Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at....at line 537.

the line in question is:

return ($total) if ($total > $max_nb)

the function this belongs to is:

sub Unknown_Number
{
  my $device = shift;

  my $max_nb = Octopussy::Parameter('wizard_max_msgs');
  my ($total, $nb) = (0, 0);
  my $dir = Octopussy::Storage::Directory_Unknown($device);
  Octopussy::FS::Create_Directory("$dir/$device/Unknown/");

  foreach my $fy (glob "$dir/$device/Unknown/*")
  {
    foreach my $fm (glob "$fy/*")
    {
      foreach my $fd (glob "$fm/*")
      {
        foreach my $f (glob "$fd/*")
        {
          chomp $f;
          $nb = `zcat "$f" | wc -l`;
          chomp $nb;
          $total += $nb if ($nb >= 0);
          return ($total) if ($total > $max_nb);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  return ($total);
}

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sorry this may seem long. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) in perl by murphybr

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