It appears the author is trying to assign two variables to a single result, essentially, my (@a, @b) = ["resulting", "string"] Hence @b has no assigned va

It appears the author is trying to assign two variables to a single result, essentially, my (@a, @b) = ["resulting", "string"] Hence @b has no assigned value. The Perl Beginners list is also a good place for this sort of discussion, https://lists.perl.org/list/beginners.html https://lists.perl.org/list/beginners.html