Short answer - no. Long answer, you're declaring the variables with my which means they're lexical and will survive until the end of the block or until the end of file. ($main::xxx will let you access globals, not lexicals). Now you can have lexicals which act as globals (do a search on uninteded globals) ala 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my( $COOKIE ) = "derby";
print $COOKIE, "\n";
asub();
print $COOKIE, "\n";

sub asub {
   $COOKIE = "derby_2";
}

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but I think in this case you may have another my( $COOKIE_ID ) in your sub which will mask the unintended global ala - 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my( $COOKIE ) = "";
print $COOKIE, "\n";
asub();
print $COOKIE, "\n";

sub asub {
   my( $COOKIE ) = "derby_2";
}

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some code would be nice (and prepare yourself for the globals bad comments)

-derby

In reply to Re: Setting Global Variable in Sub by derby
in thread Setting Global Variable in Sub by sshevlin

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