Re: Default Hash Key

You could always do something like:

my $foo = exists($description{$input}) 
   ? $description{$input} 
   : "default value";
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Or the two-step approach:

my $foo = $description{$input};
$foo = "default value" if (!defined($foo));
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--
Wade

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Re^2: Default Hash Key by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2012 at 13:44 UTC
Using the "//" operator, this folds into: `my $foo = $description{$input} // "default value";`	[reply] [d/l]