On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 20:11 +0200, Dr.Ruud wrote:
> "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" schreef:
>
> > [autovivication]
> > Perl does this even if you're just testing. I don't know why.
> > [...]
> > if( exists $var->{foo}{bar}[5] ){
> > print "foobar\n";
> > }
> > print Dumper $var;
>
> "just testing"?
> exists() just doesn't shortcut.
> So to test $var->{foo}{bar}[5]
> you just need to have $var->{foo}{bar}, etc.
One would think that exists( $var->{foo}{bar}[5] ) would be a short-cut
for ( exists( $var->{foo} ) && exists( $var->{foo}{bar} ) &&
exists( $var->{foo}{bar}[5] ) but apparently not :(
--
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
Linux is obsolete.
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
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