yeah, that works, but I was trying to do it in one statement as a scalar assigment.
Thanks JW --- Stuart White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would declaring all your variables with one my > suffice? then your first line before use strict; > should work. Like this: > > my ($a, $b); > $a = $b = 'apple'; > > > --- Jeff Westman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may sound trivial, but I am trying to declare > > and assign multiple > > scalars to the same variable in the same statement. > > This is what I have: > > > > #!/bin/perl -w > > $a = $b = "apple"; # works > > use strict; > > my ($a = $b) = "apple"; # does not works > > my $a = my $b = "apple"; # works .. but looks ugly > > > > I'm trying to get away from using multiple "my"s in > > the same statement. I > > looked at FTP.pm, and for *lists* it's possible: > > my ($ftp, $dir, $recurse) = @_; > > > > Is there something I am not seeing? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jeff > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to > > Outlook(TM). > > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
