I put a print statement, just before the (-e $filename) line, to print the $filename. It printed the $filename successfully and didn't give the 'uninitialized' warning for the print line.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikola Janceski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Agustin Rivera'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ahmed Moustafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: RE: (-e $filename) gives Use of uninitialized value at... > Assuming you have all warnings on, via -w or use warnings, I don't think > $filename is losing scope, unless he uses it else where. > > The warning is good, it's telling you that $filename = "" at that point in > your script. So either you lost the contents of $filename somewhere, or lost > scope of the $filename with content you wanted, or you reassigned it to "". > Either way you shouldn't be doing (-e ""); which is happening at that point. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Agustin Rivera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:12 PM > > To: Ahmed Moustafa; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: (-e $filename) gives Use of uninitialized value at... > > > > > > Seems like the method you use to assign filename doesn't always occur. > > Maybe you have the my $filename='whatever' in an if statement? > > > > Agustin Rivera > > Webmaster, Pollstar.com > > http://www.pollstar.com > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ahmed Moustafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:02 AM > > Subject: (-e $filename) gives Use of uninitialized value at... > > > > > > > I'm using (-e $filename) to check the existence of > > $filename. If the file > > > exists, it returns true, otherwise it gives 'Use of > > uninitialized value > > > at...line #' (# is the line number of the if statement -if > > ($filename)-. > > Why > > > does that happen and how I can fix it, please? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > --Ahmed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
