Re: Best method of assigning "default" values?

How about defined?

my $val = defined($input_ref->{do_this}) ? $input_ref->{do_this} : "My
+ Default Value";
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Of course, some monk more clever than I will figure out a way to shorten it ;)

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Re^2: Best method of assigning "default" values? by davidrw (Prior) on Jun 28, 2005 at 15:50 UTC
`exists` might be preferable to `definded` if you want to distinguish the case of `routine( do_this => undef )`. OP -- There was also a very closely related discussion yesterday/this morning in the Hashes and keys... thread.	[reply] [d/l] [select]