Re: Default Hash Key

[wade]

You could always do something like:

my $foo = exists($description{$input}) 
   ? $description{$input} 
   : "default value";

Or the two-step approach:

my $foo = $description{$input};
$foo = "default value" if (!defined($foo));

[Anonymous Monk]

Using the "//" operator, this folds into:

my $foo = $description{$input} // "default value";