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This is a development version of Perl. </div> <dl> <dt id="local-EXPR"><a class="permalink" href="#local-EXPR">#</a><a id="local"></a>local EXPR </dt> <dd> <p>You really probably want to be using <a href="/5.41.8/functions/my"><code>my</code></a> instead, because <a href="/5.41.8/functions/local"><code>local</code></a> isn't what most people think of as "local". See <a href="/5.41.8/perlsub#Private-Variables-via-my()">"Private Variables via my()" in perlsub</a> for details.</p> <p>A local modifies the listed variables to be local to the enclosing block, file, or eval. If more than one value is listed, the list must be placed in parentheses. 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