Perl Programming/Keywords/my
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The my keywordEdit
The my keyword is used before a variable declaration and makes the variable lexically in this block, file, or eval. If the user wants that more than one variable is declared in this way, parenthesis are required.
SyntaxEdit
my VARIABLE_LIST
my TYPE VARIABLE_LIST
my VARIABLE_LIST : ATTRIBUTES
my TYPE VARIABLE_LIST : ATTRIBUTES
ExamplesEdit
my ( undef, $min, $hour ) = localtime;
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my $dollars = 123;