Thanks Jenda, Chas.Owens and fellow members.
What do you mean by "globalise"? Jenda
Looking at the script below, in diagram 1, $capital will not be incremented unless I write it as in diagram 2. Just because I do not want $capital to be reset on each foreach loop, I then have to declare $capital as in diagram 2. This seems to defeat the purpose of using the "use strict" pragma.
Thanks #####diagram 1######### use strict; my $banker = 5; my $player = 3; my $stake = 1; foreach (qw/1..10/){ if ($banker > $player){ my $capital += $stake; } } #### diagram 2 ########### use strict; my $banker = 5; my $player = 3; my $stake = 1; my $capital = 1; foreach (qw/1..10/){ if ($banker > $player){ $capital += $stake; } } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/