I always use strict, and usually declare/initialize variables at the top of a script. 

use warnings;
use strict;

my ($str1, $str2, $str3);
my @arr = ('1', '2', '3');

... do stuff with the variables ...

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Does perl have any magical tricks to put the variable declaration/initialization in a subroutine or some other mechanism so that is not the top chunk of the script?
something like this (which does not work)

use warnings;
use strict;
initializeVars();
... do stuff with the variables ...
sub initializeVars{
    our ($str1, $str2, $str3);
    our @arr = ('1', '2', '3');
}

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In reply to declare/initialize variables at bottom of script? by bcarroll

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