Dave, one point of clarification on this thread: how would you "clear" a variable that you are using over again and again, such as in a loop? See line 7: 
1:   my $tempstring;
   
2:   for $i (1...10) {
3:      for $j (1...10) {
4:         $tempstring .= $array[$j];
        }
6:      $final[$i] = $tempstring;
7:      $tempstring = "";
     }

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or would/could you use: 
7:      my $tempstring;

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or 
7:     undef $tempstring;

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or is that declaring it too many times? or is using undef has bad as I've read?

Thanks, and I will acolyte for you anytime.

In reply to Re: Re: declaration of variables by bradcathey
in thread declaration of variables by Murcia

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