The $month value('Mar'} seems to vanish within the if statement and only in the if statement. What's going on here?

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Otherwise see split, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#Parentheses-for-capturing and http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html#Extracting-matches 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd /;
my $now = localtime;
dd( $now );
my( $weekday, $month, $monthday, $time, $year ) = split ' ', $now;
dd( ( $weekday, $month, $monthday, $time, $year )  );
__END__
"Mon Mar  9 20:38:38 2015"
("Mon", "Mar", 9, "20:38:38", 2015)

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In reply to Re: value disappears in if statement by Anonymous Monk
in thread value disappears in if statement by ggadd

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