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Postings from May 2004
david nicol wrote: > > --- perl-current/pod/perlrun.pod Tue May 18 08:28:56 2004 > +++ perl-current-new/pod/perlrun.pod Fri May 21 03:06:23 2004 > @@ -531,10 +531,14 @@ > Perl does not expand C<~> in filenames, which is good, since some > folks use it for their backup files: > > $ perl -pi~ -e 's/foo/bar/' file1 file2 file3... > > +Code within C<BEGIN> and C<END> blocks, being outside of the > +implicit program loop created by the B<-i> switch, does not have > +its I/O redirected. In fact, -i doesn't create any program loop. It's -p that does. -i only modifies the behaviour of <>, which is implicitely read by -p.