pyrrhlinI had need for a new #perl operator today, like:
$val //~ s/$prefix//;
that would be equivalent to:
$val =~ s/$prefix// if defined $val;
is it too late to get this for v5.42 ?
SREagle@Pyrrhlin @Perl
I think it would also be equivalent to:
{ no warnings 'unintitialized';
$val =~ s/$prefix// }
Or am I missing something here?
This seems more like a code smell to me. If you need to preprocess the content of the scalar, is it warranted for the scalar to still be potentially undef afterwards?
Beware: The seemingly similar '//=' operator does assign something only if the scalar is NOT defined. Your proposed operator would do something only if the scalar IS defined.