in reply to Catching Warnings and Showing Uninitialized Variables

As ikegami pointed out to me yesterday, the sub will only be compiled once, so it's only the assignment to $SIG{__WARN__} that will be duplicated. You could avoid that by only setting it if it's not already set:

while (my $line = <LOG>) { my (@entry) = split(/\s+/, $line); my (@edate) = Parse_Date(substr($entry[0],0,10)); my ($http_code) = substr($entry[3], -3); my ($url) = "$1$2" if ($entry[6] =~ m|^http://.*v1=(.*)&v2=(.*)&v3=.*$|); $SIG{'__WARN__'} ||= sub { print "WARNING: ". $_[0] ."\n". " http_code: $http_code\n". " url: $url\n". " edate[0]: $edate[0]\n". " edate[1]: $edate[1]\n". " edate[2]: $edate[2]\n". " edate[3]: $edate[3]\n" if ($_[0] =~ /^Use of uninitialized value in hash element.*$/); }; $STATUS{$http_code}{$url}{$edate[0]}{$edate[1]}{$edate[2]}{$edate[3]} +++; }

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