[TriLUG] perl: how to initialise a variable that I want to be NULL

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Anderson Silva wrote:

> I was pretty sure this worked... have you tried it with double quotes?
> my $query_string = "";

no. never thought of that :-(

double quotes works fine.

I'd assumed that since interpolation was not involved, that 
they'd both be the same. Is there some reasoning behind this 
or is this just a piece of magic to remember?

Thanks

Joe

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