On Apr 10, David Gray said: >> $question = $default if $question eq ''; > >You could possibly shorten this last line to: > >$question ||= $default; > >This will set $question to $default if $question logically evaluates to >false (which includes the case where $question is the empty string). If >you only want to reset $question when it contains nothing, however, the >previous solution is exactly what you want to do.
I'd have used that, but it doesn't allow the user to enter 0 as their response, since 0 is false. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
