use warnings; use strict; use vars qw(@array); @array = 1..20; print "BEFORE: @array\n"; &TestSub(); print "AFTER: @array\n"; sub TestSub { local @array[4..10]; @array[4..11] = 104..111; print "INSIDE: @array\n"; } #### BEFORE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 INSIDE: 1 2 3 4 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 AFTER: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 111 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20