$ perl -e 'use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);$b=\@a} print Dumper $b' $VAR1 = [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]; #### $ perl -e 'use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);my $b=\@a} print Dumper $b' $VAR1 = undef; #### $ perl -e 'use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);local $b=\@a} print Dumper $b' $VAR1 = undef; #### $ perl -e 'use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);our $b=\@a} print Dumper $b' $VAR1 = [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ];