G'day thnksnw,

Welcome to the Monastery.

Having just posted a solution with three such anonymous blocks, I thought I'd share as another example. While not trying to take anything away from the examples already posted by others in this thread, my example is a fully functional script which may provide a little more insight as you're new to Perl.

I also use this method a lot when writing test scripts. Many individual tests within the one script can be very similar; using anonymous blocks means I don't have to continually think up new variable names, remember to reinitialise existing variables, or worry about accidentally redefining variables (e.g. my $var = ... used more than once in the same scope).

Have fun learning Perl.