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How to use hashes (and arrays and scalars), see perldata.

@_ and $_ are the default array and scalar. For instance shift and pop without arguments modify @_, and print without arguments prints the current value of $_.

@_ also gets set with the arguments to the current subroutine and $_ is used as a general single argument. See perlsub and perlvar.

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In reply to Re: Not quite understanding a couple of things by Joost
in thread Not quite understanding a couple of things by pikablu

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