Possibly use 
my $value = get_value_from_external_program || "defaultvalue";

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From: Beast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:28 PM
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Subject: Use of uninitialized value 



When using use warnings; I receive this error msg?

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at...

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my $value = get_value_from_external_program;

How do avoid such warning, because value is coming from external program

thus I can't make sure that it will return a string or null.


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