> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:20 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Getting past "Use of uninitialized value..."
>
>
> Perl: 5.6.0
> DBI: 1.2.0
> DBD::Oracle: 1.12
> OS: Solaris 2.7
>
> I'm reading in a list of users from an Oracle database. Some
> fields are
> required, some are optional (e.g. Title.) When I get back my
> populated
> array of hashes, I have no idea what I got until I print it.
> Unfortunately,
> while using strict, I get the dubious message:
>
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at /path...pl
> line 1288
>
> every time a record comes up with no title field populated.
>
> Is there some way to make this work whether a value was read from the
> database or not?
>
> print "\t\t<td nowrap>$ulist[$i]{'Title'}</td>\n";
Actually, "use strict" isn't the culprit; it's -w or "use warnings".
For 5.6 and higher, you can wrap the code in a block like this:
{
no warnings 'uninitialized';
... your code here ...
}
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