kill some 5.28 warnings

[spider.git] / perl / Filter.pm

diff --git a/perl/Filter.pm b/perl/Filter.pm
index 867c8ddfe73533fea29a6e3b09f5f0dcd106e2d5..a422b014a926d31eb2779cbd9a587a4ff695a686 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Filter.pm
+++ b/perl/Filter.pm
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ sub parse
        my $filter;
        my ($flag, $call);
        my $s;
-       my $user;
+       my $user = '';
        
        # check the line for non legal characters
        dbg("Filter::parse line: '$line'") if isdbg('filter');
@@ -550,11 +550,13 @@ sub parse
                }
        }
 
-       # tidy up the user string
-       $user =~ s/\&\&/ and /g;
-       $user =~ s/\|\|/ or /g;
-       $user =~ s/\!/ not /g;
-       $user =~ s/\s+/ /g;
+       # tidy up the user string (why I have to stick in an if statement when I have initialised it I have no idea! 5.28 bug?
+       if ($user) {
+               $user =~ s/\&\&/ and /g;
+               $user =~ s/\|\|/ or /g;
+               $user =~ s/\!/ not /g;
+               $user =~ s/\s+/ /g;
+       }
        
        return (0, $filter, $fno, $user, $s);
 }