Re: default value -simpler method?

2002-04-10 Thread p
Hi, Just out of interest, could you do it this way: my $default = /foo/bar/blat; print File to use? [$default] ; chomp(my $question = STDIN || $default); I've just started using this sort of approach to assign default values to undefined/null parameters, eg: my $age = param('age')

Re: default value -simpler method?

2002-04-10 Thread Elias Assmann
my $age = param('age') || 12; Is that an acceptable way of doing things, or is there some glaringly obvious mistake? It seems to pick up null and undefined values okay, without any errors (i.e. no age param, or age= will get 12). Only problem is that it treats 0 as null/undefined, but