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Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics

by arturo (Vicar)
on Mar 23, 2001 at 21:39 UTC ( [id://66677]=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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  1. or download this
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    package main;
    
    # terminate("arturo"); # produces an error if you uncomment it
    
  2. or download this
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    
    $Robert = "the boss";  # error!
    print "\$Robert = $Robert\n";
    
  3. or download this
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    
    $main::Robert = "the boss";
    print "\$main::Robert = $main::Robert\n";
    
  4. or download this
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    
    print "Here at work, 'Robert' is $Robert, but over at the pool hall, '
    +Robert'
    is $PoolHall::Robert\n";
    
  5. or download this
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    print "\$foo: $foo\n"; # prints "Hey!" -- the my variable's still in s
    +cope
    # if we hadn't made that declaration above, this would be an error: th
    +e
    # interpreter would tell us that Bar::foo has not been defined.
    
  6. or download this
    #~/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    package Movie;
    
    print "Bob => $bob, Carol => $carol\n";
    
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    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    
    ...
    sub showfoo {
     return $foo;
    }
    

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