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Re: Pass an optional parameter to a subroutine

by robartes (Priest)
on Sep 15, 2006 at 08:17 UTC ( [id://573069]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Pass an optional parameter to a subroutine

You're being bitten by the fact that 0 is false, so if you pass 0 in $db_write, the shift || 1 sees false || 1 and you get 1.

You will probably want to explicitely check for definedness instead:

my $ref_mail = shift; my $db_write = shift; # If $db_write is defined, use that, otherwise default to 1 $db_write = defined($db_write)?$db_write:1;

CU
Robartes-

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Re^2: Pass an optional parameter to a subroutine
by ocs (Monk) on Sep 15, 2006 at 08:52 UTC
    Wow, thank you guys. That was really fast & you got my problem solved. Great community :)

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