Okay, people, she's BAAAACK! My apologies for the elementary nature of my questions, but I am not now, nor have I ever been, a programmer. Closest I've come is JCL maintenance on MVS mainframes, which kind of explains why I have this question....

What is the syntax for assigning values to local variables? Here are a couple of examples: 

local $GTENV = ltcd;  # local = available for whole script? 
my $BNAME = ICVALID;  # my = NOT available to subroutines?
my $GTSTARTUP_T = "O:\Tools\GraphTalkDeveloper\R3212\bin\GTvrtt.exe"; 
+ # enclose values w/ spec chars in ""s?

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Is there a standard for how many spaces to leave between the variable name and the assignment operator? How does one know whether to enclose a value in single-quotes, double-quotes, parentheses, or nothing? Does it look like I understand correctly (if at a really basic level) the use of "my" vs. "local"?

I SWEAR I have RTFM, so to speak (searched online & in the 4 Perl books I have), but I must have missed it, assuming it's there. Any hints on where to find the answers? Thanks for your patience; you monks seem to be to have the largest volume of it of any usenets.

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