Jeff Westman wrote:
> This may sound trivial, but I am trying to declare and assign multiple
> scalars to the same variable in the same statement. This is what I
> have:
>
> #!/bin/perl -w
> $a = $b = "apple"; # works
> use strict;
> my ($a = $b) = "apple"; # does not works
do:
my ($a,$b) = ("apple", "apple");
Wags ;)
> my $a = my $b = "apple"; # works .. but looks ugly
>
> I'm trying to get away from using multiple "my"s in the same
> statement. I looked at FTP.pm, and for *lists* it's possible:
> my ($ftp, $dir, $recurse) = @_;
>
> Is there something I am not seeing?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>
>
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