Stray Variables

jeyroz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

OK, newbie question. I have been modifying and re-modifying perl scripts and am finding old stray variables left behind here and there. The variables are being declared but not initialized in most cases. Is there a way the perl engine can detect an un-used variable? If I am using -w, will such warnings show up in an error log? Thanks for the help. - j

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•Re: Stray Variables by merlyn (Sage) on Nov 05, 2004 at 19:38 UTC
My favorite is B::Xref. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: Stray Variables by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Nov 05, 2004 at 19:13 UTC
There is a "used once" warning which does what you want. Just make sure you have warnings enabled and run. They will be logged if STDERR is, for instance in CGI. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Stray Variables by csuhockey3 (Curate) on Nov 05, 2004 at 19:18 UTC
always use strict and -w. Is there a reason you are not? Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you might need (say you are using -w), have a look at Tie::Scalar::Timeout (also hash and array), more of an OO approach.	[reply]