The local command creates local variables (as opposed to global variables). A local variable can be used until the end of the current atomic scope.
|<varname>||Create a local variable, initial value is the empty string.|
|<varname1,varname2>||Declare multiple variables to be local variables|
|<varname> <value>||Declare a local variable and give it an initial value|
|-<varname>||Delete a local variable|
|<structure>.||Declare all variables of the form <structure>.<var> to be local|
|-dump||Remove all local variables in the current atomic scope|
Local variables are created implicitly by several commands which I should be listing here.
To give the local variable $blah a value of “this is a test”:
local blah this is a test
To give both $blah and $foo a value:
local blah,foo local vars are neat
The local command first appeared in EPIC4pre0.009. # $EPIC: local.txt,v 1.3 2006/08/01 04:07:08 sthalik Exp $