in reply to lexical scope in if/elsif tests

You will have to drop the my statement in the elsif.

From the docs in perlsub:

The my operator declares the listed variables to be lexically confined to the enclosing block, conditional (if/unless/elsif/else), loop (for/foreach/while/until/continue), subroutine, eval, or do/require/use'd file.

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Re^2: lexical scope in if/elsif tests
by AR (Friar) on Apr 05, 2010 at 13:45 UTC
    I ended up using a second variable name for the elsif test. Thanks for pointing me to the right place in the documentation.
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