I'm not far above an initiate myself. But yes, declaring $a with my within the eval limits its scope only to that eval block -- as declaring anything with my makes it a lexical variable limited to whatever { } block it is within (not just eval; the same goes for a sub or 'for' or any block). If you want a global variable -- why do you want a global variable? If you just want something that's visible to both your eval and your sub, you could declare 'my $a' outside both blocks -- (creating a lexical variable at the package level). It would do what you need it to do, and make it effectively 'global' to your script here.

Does this sound confusing? Sorry. I am still figuring out scope myself. I read this excellent article on scope the other day (discovered in a link here). It is kind of old, but timeless (in recent versions of Perl, 'our' declarations are recommended over 'use vars' for package variables).

In any case, I would recommend the pragmata "use warnings 'all'" and "use strict" to help you catch issues like this. It's particular helpful when you're learning, but recommendable always.

In reply to Re: Doubt in Eval by LonelyPilgrim
in thread Doubt in Eval by rajan

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