>>>>> "SB" == Steve Bertrand <st...@ibctech.ca> writes:
SB> $user_ref->{$username}{payment} += $payment ||= $payment;
SB> $user_ref->{$username}{amount} += $amount ||= $amount;
assuming no entries in payment or amount, you don't need the ||= at
all. += will work on an undef (or non-existing hash) value and coerce it
to 0 and then add the number. it will not trigger warnings as this is a
useful case of ignoring undef values. .= (append string) also doesn't
trigger warnings for the same reason.
perl -lwe 'my %x; print( $x{y} += 3 )'
3
perl -lwe 'my $x ; print( $x .= "cd" )'
cd
perl does all sorts of little things like that. read more about
autovivication in my article:
http://sysarch.com/Perl/autoviv.txt
uri
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