Perl Array reverse() Function - Quick Tutorial

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by Kirk Brown
Kirk Brown is a systems software engineer with expertise in Perl, PHP, Ruby, and Python.
Updated October 21, 2017 
 @REVERSED_LIST = reverse(@ARRAY);
reverse()
returns 
 @myNames = ('Jacob', 'Michael', 'Ethan', 'Andrew');
@reversedNames = reverse(@myNames);
@myNames
reverse()
@myNames
@reversedNames
@reversedNames
('Andrew', 'Ethan', 'Michael', 'Jacob')

, and @myNames remains the same.