Context and Subroutines : Context « Subroutine « Perl






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Context and Subroutines

   

@now = localtime;  # List context
print "@now\n";   # Scalar context

$now = localtime;
print "$now\n";

print localtime, "\n"; # prints in list context
print scalar localtime,"\n"; # Forced to scalar context








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