Error/Warning - what's "prettier" way of achieving purpose

[David Dick]

ADFH wrote:

>Some code I've written has following line..
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>print   (!defined $DEBUG) ? $cgi_int->header : '' ;
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>Basically, if I'm debugging, a content type header is printed
>elsewhere.. With the above line I get the following message:
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>"Useless use of a constant in void context"
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>Should I be using a full-blown if statement?
>Should I be using a different way of saying null?
>Is there a different structure I should be using?
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You could use

print ((! defined $DEBUG) ? $cgi->header : '');

or

print $cgi->header if (not defined $DEBUG); # slightly different, it 
won't print the empty string ;)

as to whether you should.... What are you trying to achieve? Quick and 
dirty prototyping? Application for others to maintain?

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>ADFH
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