What is the difference between my and local in Perl?

Question

I am seeing both of them used in this script I am trying to debug and the literature is just not clear. Can someone demystify this for me?

Answer 1

&s;

sub s()
{
    local $s="5";
    &b;
    print $s;
}

sub b()
{
    $s++;
}

The above script prints 6.

But if we change local to my it will print 5.

This is the difference. Simple.