Re^2: Multiple assignment in Perl

That is embarrassing for me! It was the first thing I tried; it did not work for me at the time. I must have made a typo, etc. Thank you.

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Re^3: Multiple assignment in Perl by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 23, 2018 at 04:34 UTC
Maybe on your first attempt, you put an extra `my` in front of it? That would cause issues because it would declare two new variables within the `while` loop which would mask the old variables. Also, `$a` and `$b` are really bad variable names to choose in Perl. There are special variables with these names used by `sort` so using them for other stuff can occasionally cause issues. `$x` and `$y` would be fine, as would more meaningful variable names. toby döt ink	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Multiple assignment in Perl by rnaeye (Friar) on Jul 24, 2018 at 13:05 UTC
Thanks for the tip on variable usage.	[reply]