Fellow Monks: I wanted to set all the variables, as shown in the code below to zero. 
use strict;

my ($JAN,$FEB,$MAR,$APR,$MAY,$JUN,$JUL,$AUG,$SEP,$OCT,$NOV,$DEC)=0;

print "JAN:  $JAN\n";
print "DEC:  $DEC\n";

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However these are the results & error that I get:
JAN:  0
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at P:\test37
+9.pl line 7.
DEC:

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 However, it appears that only the first in the list, $JAN, get assigned the zero; all the others appear to be uninitialized.
What subtlety am I missing?
Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated, Thanks!

In reply to multiple variable initialization in one line by Anonymous Monk

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