From: Josh Huber <huber+rt@...>
Date: 2004-06-15T07:35:33+09:00
Subject: Re: undefine

tony summerfelt <snowzone5@hotmail.com> writes:

> {
>     # date parsing code was here
>      @diff=Delta_DHMS(@binkdate,@today) if /(\[\d+\])/;
>      print $trimmed $_ if $diff[0] < $ARGV[1] && defined(@diff);
>      next  if defined(@diff);
>      print $trimmed $_ if ! /(\[\d+\])/;
>      undef(@diff);
> }

Can't you just use "=nil" to achive the same thing?

i.e. something like:

diff = Delta_DHMS(binkdate, today) if /(\[\d+\])/
print trimmed $_ if diff[0] < ARGV[1] && diff
next  if diff
print trimmed $_ if ! /(\[\d+\])/
diff = nil

(just using the fact that 'nil' is false)

-- 
Josh Huber