Re^3: local variable syntax

[fishbot_v2]

Welcome to Perl, and best of luck.

Sometimes, if you are starting, diving right into the specs can be pretty overwhelming. And the bundled perldocs are geared primarily towards programmers. Working through a good beginner book is a good place to start, sounds like you are working on that. There are also Tutorials here at PM, too. This one does a better job of answering your question about quotes.

[yburge]

Thanks for the pointer, fishbot. I AM a bit unnerved by the volume of information I need to learn, WHILE converting our .bat files to Perl scripts (I'm expected to learn on the run, so to speak). I've been jumping around from books to websites and back to books every time I have a question, so I've surely missed some valuable information, like the real scoop on variable scope.