Shawn H Corey wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> my $month = $ARGV[0] if $ARGV[0]; > > $ cat myscript.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $month = $ARGV[0] if $ARGV[0]; > print "$month\n"; > $ ./myscript.pl > Use of uninitialized value $month in concatenation (.) or string at > ./myscript.pl line 7. > > > > Try: > my $month = ''; > $month = $ARGV[0] if $ARGV[0];
aha! It was the *declaration* part of the critic complaint that I read over. For some reason I was thinking 'assignment'. Perhaps I should read next time. Thanks! Steve ps. again, far better arg handler is in order ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
