Re: localization of $

If you use $_ often as a temporary variable, you should definately use local $_; at the beginning of your subroutines to prevent this exact situation from happening.

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(tye)Re: localization of $_ by tye (Sage) on Feb 28, 2001 at 00:40 UTC
...and you can also be defensive and protect yourself from other code that isn't as nice: `sub mine { local( $_ ); while( <FILE> ) { s/this/that/g; { local( $_ )= $_; yours( $_ ); } s/that/this/g; }` [download] though if you find yourself doing that I strongly suggest you just switch to using `my $var` instead of $_. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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Re: localization of $_