>perl -wMstrict -le "my @ra = qw(a b c d); my $uninitialized; print $ra[3]; print '----------'; print $ra[$uninitialized]; print $ra[undef]; " d ---------- Use of uninitialized value $uninitialized in array element at -e line 1. a Use of uninitialized value in array element at -e line 1. a