in reply to ARGV question

'shift' with no arguments, as is the case here, pops the first item off of '@_'. '@_' is an array of arguments given to the current subroutine so the value assigned to $verbose is dependent on the scope of the line you gave.

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Re^2: ARGV question
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Aug 18, 2008 at 21:19 UTC
    shift doesn't just operate on @_. Outside of a subroutine it operates on @ARGV.
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      Now it's clear. Thanks so much for the explanations guys. Especially FunkyMonk - you should be a Perl professor!

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