i must be missing something... (ever the initiate)

please consider the following snippet: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $config_file = "/home/foo/bar";
read_conf($config_file);

#  el fin

#  this subroutine in RL actually does something,
#  but that is outside the scope of the question ;)
sub read_conf {
  my $conf_file = @_;
  open (CONF, "$conf_file") or die "[ $conf_file ]: $!\n";
}

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upon calling read_conf(), i get the die msg:

"[ 1 ]: No such file or directory"

now, if i change my $conf_file = @_; to: my ($conf_file) = @_; it works fine.

what *am* i missing?

thanks in advance



decnartne ~ entranced

In reply to using 'my $var' vs. 'my($var)' by decnartne

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