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As you've already been told (by Perl and by fellow monks), you can't use local on a lexical (my) variable.

Fellow monks have shown how you can achieve your goal using my instead of local. If you had to use local, then you need to make a package variable by that name first.

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";
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You should never have to use this, though. Always use my if possible.

In reply to Re^4: The difference between my and local by ikegami
in thread The difference between my and local by cLive ;-)

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