RE: If value missing?

[Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1]

An empty string will return false in a boolean context.  So,

unless ($date1)
{
        $date1=$date2;
}

will work.
Personally, i prefer:

$date1 ||= $date2;

It seems more 'perlish'  ;)

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