This brings me to the problem I've been having. I have a "my" variable that I want to update within an if..elsif, but it does not get updated.

  my $a = "TEST';
  if ($x == 1) {
    $a = "one";
  } elsif ($x == 2) {
    $a = "TWO";
  } else {
    $a = "EMPTY";
  }
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However, $a is not getting updated. I'm obviously overlooking something in either declaring the variable to be global, or some way to reference the variable directly. I just don't quite know where to look. Anyone???