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in reply to Re: split and uninitialized variables
in thread split and uninitialized variables

Your first one's not going to work. 

main::(-e:1):   0
  DB<1> $_ = "a,b"

  DB<2> x ($x,$y,$z) = ('default') x 3
0  'default'
1  'default'
2  'default'
  DB<3> x ($x,$y,$z) = split( ',', $_ )
0  'a'
1  'b'
2  undef

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