Re: another help on input record separator clarity please

Chas. Owens wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> snip
>   
>>  They are probably undefinately because the record seperator is being
set
>>  lexically inside of the loop (and thus won't apply to the outer
while).  Please
>>  consider this code:
>>
>>
>>     local $/ = "\n\n";
>>     
> snip
>
> An im****tant nitpick: that is a localized version of $/, not a lexical
> version.  See
>
> http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/local.html
>
> for more information.
>
>   
Chas, does this mean as long as we don't call another sub from the block 
we declare local, we should be good. Correct?
I like using local on some of these variables...... for some reason. 
Most likely due to misleading name :-)  Can't help myself.