On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:33:37AM -0500, Stephen Adkins
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The situation where this most bugs me is when I read data from
> a database (and I frequently have nullable columns), a row of
> data will have "undefs" in it. Then I print the row and I get
> the "uninitialized variable warning".
>
> In other words, "undef" is a valid value, but I want to print it,
> and I'm OK with it being printed as the empty string ("").
If you want "undef" printed as an empty string, then why not do that
conversion explicitly.
print map { defined $_ ? $_ : '' } @array;
Of course, this gets much simpler in Perl 6
print map { $_ // '' } @array;
Dave...
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