I'm trying to move the "my's" outside the block. $menudir is the problem. 

my $thumbgif = "thumb.gif"; # no need to redeclare this every time.
my $menudir;
foreach my $ref (sort {(-1, 0, 1)[rand 3]} @records)
{
      $menudir = $ref->{dir};
      my $thumb = "$webdir/$menudir/$thumbgif";
      print qq{<img align="center" border="0" src="$thumb">};
}

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Is that all you wanted? $menudir should never have been a problem to move outside the block. However please note that if you use what I've written $menudir after the block will contain only the value that it was set to on the last iteration.

As such, unless you specifically care about it's last value it really should be localised to that block.

Hope this helps.

jarich

In reply to Re: Re: Assigning a variable to a Hash key reference by jarich
in thread Assigning a variable to a Hash key reference by malaga

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