Re: How to handle passed data in subroutines

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There's a bit of magic happening in the background. First thing you need to know is that if you work directly with the @_ array, you are altering the values passed to the subroutine directly. When you use for, the variable assigned to (in this case, $_) is actually an alias in the list the for is iterating over. uc returns a new value and does not work on $_. To fix it, it's only a matter of:

  $_ = uc($_);

Of course, since we're working with the variable $_, we can just use $_ = uc; instead and still get the desired results. I hope this helps you with your problem.