There is definitely an explanation in the Camel (Chapter 4.8.1, Scoped variable declarations).
my $var declares a lexical variable, i.e. a variable with limited scope (where the scope is limited by an enclosing block, such as a subroutine, a conditional loop etc.). HTH, Jan Harshal Borade wrote: >Well I am very new to Perl. I have read Oreily's >Camel book, but haven't found any thing about >my that is used in any of the code. > >e.g >my $var > >What is my supposed to be over here? -- Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
