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>From: TMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Aug 11, 2007 10:41 PM
>To: beginners@perl.org
>Subject: my $variable verse $variable
>
>Greetings,
>Being new to perl can someone explain why my is in form of variables
>and what is the purpose?
>
Hello,
See this good article,whic
Paul Lalli wrote:
If you type:
use strict;
at the top of your program, Perl will force you to "fully qualify" all
of your global variables. That is, to name them with their package
name in addition to the actual variable name. So the variable $foo in
package main must actually be called $main::
On Aug 11, 10:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tmc) wrote:
> Being new to perl can someone explain why my is in form of variables
> and what is the purpose?
You should have a read of: http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html
Basically, there are two kinds of variables in Perl. Global
variables, whic
TMC wrote:
Greetings,
Being new to perl can someone explain why my is in form of variables
and what is the purpose?
'my' is used to declare a variable and limit its scope. If you `use strict;`
(and you should) you must declare all unqualified variables.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warn
