use strict; my $var = NULL;
will raise an error of Bareword "NULL" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
To set the value of a variable is it's equal to null , use the nullish coalescing operator, e.g. myVar = myVar ?? 'new value' . The nullish coalescing operator returns the right-hand side operand if the left-hand side evaluates to null or undefined , otherwise it returns the left-hand side operand.
There's no NULL in Perl. However, variables can be undef ined, which means that they have no value set. To check for definedness of a variable, use defined() , i.e. +1.
The set <variable> to null construct sets a project variable to no value. <variable> refers to the variable of bound entity that is referenced in the agent descriptor file.
In JavaScript, null is a special value that represents an empty or unknown value. For example, let number = null; The code above suggests that the number variable is empty at the moment and may have a value later.
There's no NULL in Perl. However, variables can be undef
ined, which means that they have no value set.
Here're some examples of how you can get an undefined variable in Perl:
my $var; # variables are undefined by default undef $var; # undef() undefines the value of a variable $var = undef; # same, using an alternative syntax
To check for definedness of a variable, use defined()
, i.e.
print "\$var is undefined\n" unless defined $var;
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