Use of uninitialized value

[Daniel Kasak]

Hi all.
I'm after people's thoughts on Perl's warnings about 'Use of 
uninitialized value' in various situations ( string comparisons, 
subroutine entries, etc ).
I understand what the warning is for.
In my code, it's perfectly OK for my variables to be uninitialised, and 
is beyond my control anyway - the data is coming from a database, and an 
undef value is perfectly legal ( NULL fields ).

I can make Perl stop complaining about it by placing if() statements 
around everything, eg:

if ($value) {
   if ($value eq "some_value_to_compare_to") {
      # stuff
   } else {
      # other stuff
   }
} else {
      # same as other stuff above
}
But this makes things look overly complicated, increases the size of my 
code, and I assume slows things down because I'm doing an extra 
comparison that I honestly don't need to be doing.

Is there any way to prevent 'Use of uninitialized value' warnings 
without doing an extra test as above ( and still keeping warnings turned 
on )?

Thanks :)
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