Hi Manfred, On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:28:13 +0200 Manfred Lotz <manfred.l...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Hi there, > I have a script where I use croak and somebody else using that script > gets > > Bizarre copy of HASH in list assignment > at /usr/share/perl/5.20/Carp.pm line 228. > > I get a message like this, instead: > > Variable b has empty value! at ./x.pl line 23. > main::myfunc() called at ./x.pl line 8 > > which is what should happen. > > Any idea what this message means? I'm not able to reproduce it. > > Here a minimal example: > > #! /usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > use Carp; > > myfunc(); > > > > sub myfunc { > my %vars = ( > 'a' => 'some val', > 'b' => q{}, > ); > > while ( my ( $key, $val ) = each %vars ) { > if ( not defined $val ) { > croak "No value given for $key"; > } > if ( $val eq q{} ) { > croak "Variable $key has empty value!"; > } > } > return; > } > This code looks fine to me (except for some \t|4-space-indent mixup, which is relatively minor). I cannot reproduce the reported problem here ( perl-5.20.1-8.mga5 on Mageia Linux x86-64 5 - I'm getting something similar to what you are getting). Can you please ask your friend for: 1. Operating system + version. 2. The perl 5 distribution and its version. 3. Version of Carp.pm and the surrounding lines. 4. Other parameters of their environment. Maybe this way we'll be able to reproduce it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Summer-Glau/ 95% of Programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/