Richard Lee wrote: > > while (<FILE>) { > my($file1,$file2,$file3,$file4,$file5,$file6,$file10,$file25,$file27) > = (split( /\|/, $_))[3,4,6,7,12,40,41,42,43,46,56,64] > } > > while doing above, what is the easiest way to make sure all the variable > that's being given a value is true and if not > assign something default value (such as 'default' or 'X') ? > > I was doing (after the while loop) > > $file |= 'default' > $file2 |= 'default2' > $file3 |= 'default3' > > but I stopped and thought this cannot be so repetitious > > so I didn't want to but tried( I didn't want to put them in array since > I need to use individual named variable later) > > while (<FILE>) { > my @array = (split( /\|/, $_))[3,4,6,7,12,40,41,42,43,46,56,64] > } > for (@array) { > $_ |= 'default'; > } > > but is that the best way to do this?
while (<FILE>) { my ($file1,$file2,$file3,$file4,$file5,$file6,$file10,$file25,$file27) = map $_||'default', (split /\|/)[3,4,6,7,12,40,41,42,43,46,56,64]; } Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/