diff --git a/.github/scripts/badwords.pl b/.github/scripts/badwords.pl
index e51d99f0d1..bd66f33166 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/badwords.pl
+++ b/.github/scripts/badwords.pl
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ while(<STDIN>) {
     }
 }
 
-my $errors;
+my $errors = 0;
 
 sub file {
     my ($f) = @_;
diff --git a/.github/scripts/randcurl.pl b/.github/scripts/randcurl.pl
index c07ba9b7de..b085d2ef13 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/randcurl.pl
+++ b/.github/scripts/randcurl.pl
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ sub randarg {
         "0123456789".
         ",-?#$%!@ ";
     my $len = getnum(20);
-    my $o;
+    my $o = '';
     for (1 .. $len) {
         $o .= substr($nice, getnum(length($nice)), 1);
     }