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I guess this is what Sun751 meant. His non-working example scopes the $cmd variable to the if ... else blocks.

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Re^4: reduce line of code
by jeanluca (Deacon) on Jul 14, 2009 at 09:26 UTC
    OT: just add 
    use strict ;
use warnings ;

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    to your programs, witch would have detected your scoping problem!

    LuCa
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