undefine @array

[George Mpouras]

I want to delete an array completly.

use strict; use warnings; my
@array=qw/a b c/;
@array=();
undef @array;
print @array;

I expect a warning like "Global symbol "@array" requires explicit..." but it
did not compaint

 

[George Mpouras]

yes I want to clear symbol @array completly but at the same scope

 

[Tim McDaniel]

I expect a warning like "Global symbol "@array" requires explicit..."
but it did not compaint

but later

yes I want to clear symbol @array completly but at the same scope

These goals are not consistent. As Eli explained, that is not
possible in Perl.

If you clear an array, like
my @array;
...
@array = ();
or
my @array;
...
undef @array;
that sets @array to have zero elements, but @array still exists as a
variable and you will not get a message for using @array later.

"Global symbol ... requires explicit" is an error, not a warning, so
far as I know. The only way to get that error is to declare @array in
a scope that ends, like
{
my @array = (12, 14, 16);
...
}