Re: variable declaration shortcut question

Not quite, what you can do is ... ~~(my $maid = $fields[0]) =~ /(^\d*)/;~~ my ($maid) = $fields[0]) =~ /(^\d*)/; - as per Recipe 6.1 in the Cookbook.

Update:

Thanx to ikegami twice over - wholly misplaced paren

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: variable declaration shortcut question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 03, 2009 at 15:54 UTC
`$ perl -e'my ($maid = $fields[0]) =~ /(^\d*)/;' Can't declare scalar assignment in "my" at -e line 1, near ") =~" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: variable declaration shortcut question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 03, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
Now both parens are misplaced. Code posted earlier by the OP shows that he wants the captured digits in `$maid`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: variable declaration shortcut question by lomSpace (Scribe) on Feb 03, 2009 at 17:20 UTC
I am reading it right now! Thanks!	[reply]