On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 18:07, Scott Lutz wrote: > I am wondering about the different ways of initializing a single scalar. > > usual method: > my $variable; > > but I am trying to get what (if anything) is being done differently by > this : > my ($variable); > > Thanks! > > > Scott Lutz > Pacific Online Support > Phone: 604.638.6010 > Fax: 604.638.6020 > Toll Free: 1.877.503.9870 > http://www.paconline.net
The parentheses allow you to declare more than one variable at a time like this: my ($id, $name, $age); They also allow you to do a list assignment (instead of a scalar assignment) like this: my ($id, $name, $age) = $sth->fetchrow_array; -- Today is Pungenday the 60th day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
