Re: mapping NULL values

[Ronald J Kimball]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:17:28AM -0600, Mitch Helle-Morrissey wrote:
> Is there any way to have DBI return NULL database values as something other
> than Perl undef?  It's a pain if you're printing out a bunch of columns
> without examining the values because printing an undef generates warnings.

You could turn off warnings locally when you use the values:

{
  local $^W;
  print join ',', @values;
}

Or, if you have perl5.6:

{
  no warnings 'uninitialized';
  print join ',', @values;
}

Ronald