I tried using Shift() in PERL and it is not working when I use it in a PERL root program. But when I declare a function in the program and use Shift() in that it is working. Can anyone say why is it so?

The following is the program. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

shift @ARGV; # here its is not working
print ; 

sub func
{
my $a=shift; # here its is working
my $b=shift;
print $a,$b;
return $a+$b;
}
 
print func(10,10);

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20040503 Edit by Corion: added formatting

I have used like that because in the book "Perl Weekend Crash Course" by Joe Merlino the code was given in Session 11 - Basic Input and Output.

In reply to Usage of Shift function in PERL by nallasiv

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