[Israel.pm] FW: defined function

[Chanan Berler]

PS: never mentioned it, and might be important I sent the hash to a sub like 
this:

printWarningError("my msg", 3, ( printError => 0 ));

this is my routine:

sub printWarningError {
    my ($lv_msg, $lv_ec, %lv_args) = @_;  # message to print
    
    # do nothing if msg not found
    return 0 if ((!$lv_msg) or $lv_msg eq "");
    
    # defualt values
    $lv_ec = 0 unless $lv_ec;
    
    $lv_args{printError} = 1 unless defined($lv_args{printError});
    $lv_args{RaiseError} = 1 unless defined($lv_args{RaiseError});
     
    chomp($lv_msg);
    print "Error: $lv_msg\n" if ($lv_args{printError} == 1);
    exit($lv_ec) if ($lv_args{RaiseError} == 1);
    return $lv_ec;
}


Thanks
Chanan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chanan Berler [mailto:chan...@centerity.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:21 AM
To: 'Perl in Israel'
Subject: defined function

Hi All,

Sure, I will ask again if am asking too many questions…nor if the questions are 
weird ☺
None the less, I will try ask them...

I was told defined is a function, returns 0 or nonzero values
So here is my question

"do something" unless $myscalar;               -> this is OK
"do something" unless $myhash{mykey};          -> seems not to work for me

Or

"do something" unless defined($myscalar);      -> this is OK
"do something" unless defined($myhash{mykey}); -> now this works for me

What best should I do? Although the answer is in the script body (means using 
defined)
PS: using now strict / warnings :-) never showed any warnings / errors

Thanks again
Chanan

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