[Omaha.pm] Proper way to test a variable with strict and -w?

["Daniel Linder" <dan@linder.org>]

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Guys,

I have this basic perl script:

#!perl -w
use strict;

use Env qw(EnvVar1 EnvVar2);

my $EnvVar1="DefaultValue1" if ("" eq "$EnvVar1");
my $EnvVar2="DefaultValue2" if ("" eq "$EnvVar2");
my $Var3 = "$EnvVar1 -- $EnvVar2";

When I run it, the perl interperter complains about "Use of
uninitialized value in concatenation" on the "Var3" line
(the last line.

Did I mess things up by putting the "my" on the
"EnvVar1" and "EnvVar2" lines -- these variables
should be defined on the "use Env" line, right?

If you were to re-write this whole section, how would you do it? 
This is my thought:

#!perl -w
use strict;

use Env qw(EnvVar1 EnvVar2);

my $EnvVar1 = "DefaultValue1" if (! exists ($EnvVar1));
my $EnvVar2 = "DefaultValue2" if (! exists ($EnvVar2));
my $Var3 = "$EnvVar1 -- $EnvVar2";

Dan

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