Yeah I have used the incomplete type declerations (my $response;) for this in the past which to me was the best way but it was still used in a global sense.

I was just wanting to know if there was a better way that was used or could be used. I usualy just declare all my global variables together first. my($response, $var2, $var3, $var4); etc....

So it would usually look like such in one of my scripts: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my($response);
die "Required argument missing!\n" unless ($ARGV[0]);
if ($ARGV[0] =~ /Hello/i) {
  $response = "Hello to you.\n";
}else{
  $response = "Huh?\n";
}
print $response;

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This interest was sparked because in other language I code in I usually try to "limit the scope" of my variables and try not to use global variables too much. In some languages this is looked down upon and can cause problems.

In reply to Re: Re: Best way to pass variables? by Elijah
in thread Best way to pass variables? by Elijah

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