paramerters in perl & an input problem

[Apodysophilia]

i just dont get it bah.
this works, i found a tut on it

#!/usr/bin/perl


sub test
{
	$temp = $_ for @_;
	print "the var is $temp";
}
	
test(34);

i dont knwo what the "$_ for @_ " does? and that only works for one argument. what if i want more?
and that doesnt work for text, how do i do it for text?

and
how do i terminate this. or/and is there a better way to get input from the keyboard?

@info = <STDIN>;

thanks for you time

[Apodysophilia]

ok,i figured out something, now i am just more confused

$temp = <> ;

also works for input, so what does STDIN stand/used for?

[edit]back to argurment, i kindof got it but sill am confused

sub test
{
	$temp = shift(@_) ;
	print "the add is $temp";
}
	
test(23);

what does the shift() do. and why does it have to be an array?

[Apodysophilia]

gah, i cant find a good explantion anywhere, anyone else care to help me out?

[Epsilon]

$_ is a special variable that hold the value of STDIN if you don't assign STDIN to a variable.

@_ holds an array of all the values passed to a subroutine.

STDIN stands for Standard Input and it is used to get input from the keyboard (typically to prompt a user to type something). You don't have to specifically type STDIN. If you just use the angle brackets as in:
$temp = <>;
STDIN is implied as the default.

Shift returns the first value in an array and shortens the array by one element.

@arr = ('one','two','three');

$temp1 = shift(@arr);
$temp2 = shift(@arr);

$temp1 would be 'one' since that's the first element of the array. 'one' would also be removed from the array, so when we shift again, $temp2 is 'two' since that is now the first element of the array.

[Apodysophilia]

thanks, i got a book on it, and also after reading this i understand it more. thank you