I'm surprised. :-o

You have your answers below, but I'd thought I'd post a simple example, which shows quite explictly that the 'my' does scope a variable, but doesn't re-initialise it if you have a conditional which evaluates to false. 

print count() . "\n";
print count() . "\n";
print count() . "\n";

sub count {
    my $counter = 'whatever' if 0; # declare local 'static' variable
    $counter++;
}

__OUTPUT__
0
1
2

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PS. Don't actually do this though

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my name's not Keith, and I'm not reasonable.

In reply to Re^3: 'my' problems by reasonablekeith
in thread 'my' problems by jockel

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