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in reply to Concatenate to keys in a hash whilst doing substitution on values

As for the "Use of uninitialized value in substitution.." error.. This is because the string/value/thing you are trying to regex/match into, is not defined.

my $value_0; my $value_1 = 'i have a defined value'; my $value_2 = 0; $value_0=~/content/; # this will complain $value_1=~/content/; # won't complain $value_2=~/content/; # won't complain

So, one thing you can do to avoid the error is:

if ( defined $value_0 and $value_0=~/content/ ){ ...

You can run the command 'perldoc -f defined' for more info.