in reply to using split

I've seen you write 
my( $foo, $bar ) = @_;

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This is no different 
( $a, $b ) = split(';',$abc, 2);

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Re^2: using split
by ig (Vicar) on Jul 23, 2009 at 03:50 UTC
    This is no different

    There are many differences between your two examples, but they do both have a list of variables on the left of the assignment operator and they both assign values to each variables.

    See List value constructors for more information.

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