I hope this is not a faq, I have SuperSearched for the answer but to no avail.

If I declare a variable to have block scope and then pass a reference to that variable out of the block is that will the local variable (and so the reference) be trashed? I am _really_ spending too much time writting C++ these days. I am getting my mind into a mess over this could someone clear this up for me and explain simply how perl handles scoping in this context.

What I am actually trying to do is create an array of arrays or in truth an array of array references.

Thanks for your help and sorry if this is as dumb a question as it sounds to me, but I really cant get my head around it today.
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Zigster

In reply to Question regarding perl memory management by zigster

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