note ikegami <p>As you've already been told (by Perl and by fellow monks), you can't use <c>local</c> on a lexical (<c>my</c>) variable. <p>Fellow monks have shown how you can achieve your goal using <c>my</c> instead of <c>local</c>. If you had to use <c>local</c>, then you need to make a package variable by that name first. <c> use strict; my $tt = 3.14159; { our $tt; local $tt = 3; print "In block, \$tt = $tt\n"; print "In block, \$::tt = $::tt\n"; } print "Outside block, \$tt = $tt\n"; print "Outside block, \$::tt = $::tt\n"; </c> <p>You should never have to use this, though. Always use <c>my</c> if possible. 94007 578736