saravanakumar89:

When you see the error "Use of uninitialized value", it simply means that a variable has no value (i.e. is undef). So when a third party module spits out that error message it generally means something like:

• You didn't initialize a variable.
  This is very common--run your program under the debugger and examine the variables at various points in the program to verify that they contain the values you expect.
• Object creation failed somehow.
  For example, your line my $ctx = new SVN::Client(...) may have failed, and $ctx might have nothing in it. For some trivial functions it isn't important to check the value returned to you. But for complex functions, or functions that set up the primary conditions for your application, you'll want to add some code to check the return value to ensure that you don't proceed with garbage values.

• You passed an unexpected value to a routine, confusing it.
  For this, you'll want to review the arguments of the call and compare to the documentation to see if you can find something unusual.

There are other conditions that can lead to this error as well--I just can't think of them off the top of my head. If you learn how to use the debugger, though, you'll be able to track these errors down, and you can often learn quite a bit faster: Rather than spending the time adding and removing print statements, you can tweak values and continue, letting you get through your code faster. Using the debugger can help you learn a lot more about the internals of a third-party module as well. While you can read the code, sometimes you'll run into a bit where it's difficult to interpret exactly what's happening. Using the debugger, you can see the before and after result and get a good bit more insight.

Update: Added "to a" to third bullet point, allowing the sentence to make sense...

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