Frank Maas wrote:
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:55:03PM +0200, Marcel Greter wrote:

This is not a very good solution. You would also catch the case where $_ is 0, which may should not happen. You would better do


Yes... I always fall into that pithole. I think this is because I find
the 'defined(...) ? ... : ...' phrase is kinda ugly. Silly me, I know.


$_ = defined $_ ? $_ : "NULL";

perl 5.9 has introduced a new operator //= to make it spiffy, so you'd write the above as:


$_ //= "NULL";

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