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Re: Displaying a variable's name and value in a sub

by ciderpunx (Vicar)
on Feb 14, 2011 at 23:16 UTC ( [id://888091]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Displaying a variable's name and value in a sub

my $a = 'b';
sub show {
    my $c = shift;
    print $c . '=' . eval $c; 
}

show('$a');

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But you almost certainly shouldn't be doing that, if you really care about the name of your variable pass it as a parameter ie. show('$b',$b);
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