you pull them off the @_ array you can shift them off the array individually or assign them in one shot as shown above. <edit> alternatively, if you have only one parameter you can do the following my $param_one = shift @_</edit>

As bunnyman correctly pointed out there's no real difference between the case of one and of many parameters respectively. What is to be said here is that:

  1. shift is customary when passing just one parameter or when "singling" out one, e.g. typically in OO: 
    my $self=shift;
my ($foo, $bar, $baz)=@_;

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    even though 
    my ($self $foo, $bar, $baz)=@_; # would be just as fine.

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  2. @_ is the implicit topic of shift, so, while you generally shift @an_array, the common and recommendable idiom here is 
    my $param_one=shift;

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In reply to Re^2: passing variables between subroutines by blazar
in thread passing variables between subroutines by budreaux

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