Perl Programming/Keywords/my

The my keyword

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.

Syntax

  my VARIABLE_LIST
  my TYPE VARIABLE_LIST
  my VARIABLE_LIST : ATTRIBUTES
  my TYPE VARIABLE_LIST : ATTRIBUTES

Examples

  my ( undef, $min, $hour ) = localtime;
  […]
  my $dollars = 123;

See also

• eval