</CODE> WARNING: In general, you should be using `my' instead of `local', because it's faster and safer. Exceptions to this include the global punctuation variables, filehandles and formats, and direct manipulation of the Perl symbol table itself. Format variables often use `local' though, as do other variables whose current value must be visible to called subroutines. </CODE>

This is what is written in man perlsub.

I think this is kind of straightforward?

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