my was to define a var like local. If you have a function and if you define like local, outside that function this var was empty (does not exist).
BUT if you define a var like local on main script (and that is your case), your var will not work like a local var (it will be seen by all functions). Regards Jose Pinto -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: sexta-feira, 15 de Dezembro de 2006 10:51 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: my, my... I thought I already knew a few things about Perl, but I just found out I don't: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use diagnostics; my $a="27"; doit(); sub doit{ print "$a\n"; } The output of this program is: 27 Just what I would expect if line 4 had "our" instead of "my". What am I missing? TIA. -- Jorge Almeida -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
