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On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:01:44PM -0800, Tom Phoenix wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > A coworker accidentally did:
> >
> > {
> > local($/ = undef);
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > This did not localize $/ . I don't know what it did do.
>
> It looks to me as if it did localize $/ -- but only _after_ storing undef
> into it. Oops!
That made so much sense when someone else pointed it out, I felt like an
idiot. Tragically, it is not so. Try this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
{
local($/ = undef);
$/ = "0";
}
print scalar <>;
__END__
You will find that the input separator is "0". $/ is never localized.
Beats me what is.
Andrew
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