Re: Undefined vs empty string (not length)

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Re^2: Undefined vs empty string (not length) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 05, 2013 at 03:18 UTC
if( not length $var ){ ... `Use of uninitialized value $_ in length` [download] With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Undefined vs empty string (not length) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2013 at 03:41 UTC
Use of uninitialized value $_ in length What perl version? Something before 5.012002 right? something like 5.008008? `perl -Wle " print $] if not length $_ " 5.012002` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Undefined vs empty string (not length) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 05, 2013 at 03:53 UTC
In perl5120delta: C<length undef> now returns undef. A subtle and useful change that had slipped under my radar. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]
Re^5: Undefined vs empty string (not length) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2013 at 03:55 UTC
Re^6: Undefined vs empty string (not length) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 05, 2013 at 04:00 UTC
Re^4: Undefined vs empty string (! length, v5.12) by tye (Sage) on Jun 05, 2013 at 06:52 UTC
5.12? sigh I've adopted that idiom too quickly, then. We are still at 5.10 at work (and 5.10 was brand new at the point we started the process of upgrading to a new Perl so it may well be a while before we finish the next jump in version numbers even if we started that right now -- though I expect the next attempt to happen significantly faster given the lack of Solaris and not also doing an upgrade from Apache 1 to Apache 2). Though, I find that in a large majority of cases, '0' is not a meaningful value and so "`! $s`" and "`$s \|\| ...`" are just fine. But it is annoying that the only moderately infrequent case of "undef and empty string mean 'unset' but '0' does not" requires testing the variable twice in order to deal with it (without risk of warnings). Some readers might like to know that using "`not length $s`" can easily bite one in quite mundane situations. I'd only use "`! length $s`". - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Undefined vs empty string (! length, v5.12) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2013 at 06:55 UTC
Re^6: Undefined vs empty string (so much not) by tye (Sage) on Jun 05, 2013 at 07:29 UTC
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