Perl Programming/Keywords/my
The my keyword
[edit | edit source]The my keyword is used before a variable declaration and makes the variable lexically in this block, file, or eval. If the user wants that more than one variable is declared in this way, parenthesis are required.
Syntax
[edit | edit source] my VARIABLE_LIST my TYPE VARIABLE_LIST my VARIABLE_LIST : ATTRIBUTES my TYPE VARIABLE_LIST : ATTRIBUTES Examples
[edit | edit source] my ( undef, $min, $hour ) = localtime; […] my $dollars = 123;