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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
