Please bottom post... > > why not use & for a function call? Aren't & and ( ) the same? > I used local originally b/c I wanted to use this globally from within the > function. Is there a preferred way to use local? >
& and () may not be the same, see perldoc -q calling I am not sure what you mean by "use this globally from within the function". Remember that we only see a small portion of your code, from what I have seen there is no reason to use local in this context. 'local' just tells Perl to restore the value of the variable after you leave the current scope, which didn't seem to be needed in this context. An excellent discussion of scoping can be found here: http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
