Course of Raku / Essentials / Variables and data types essentials / Scalar variables

Assigning a value

Use the = operator to put a new value into a scalar container.

my $name;
$name = 'Anna';

You can now use the variable and, for example, print it:

say $name;

Multiple assignments

Multiple variables can be assigned at once. For example, this is how to assign two scalars in a single statement:

my ($a, $b);
($a, $b) = 10, 20;

Notice that you cannot omit the parentheses on the left-hand side. But you can add them for symmetry on the right side:

($a, $b) = (10, 20);

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