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>Quoth perlmod:
> ... END blocks are not executed when you run perl with the -c
> switch.
> ...
> When you use the -n and -p switches to Perl, BEGIN and END
> work just as they do in awk, as a degenerate case. As
> currently implemented (and subject to change, since its
> inconvenient at best), both BEGIN and<END> blocks are run
> when you use the -c switch for a compile-only syntax
> check, although your main code is not.
>This latter point appears to be incorrect wrt END blocks:
perlrun states:
B<-c> causes Perl to check the syntax of the program and then
exit without executing it. Actually, it I<will> execute C<BEGIN>,
C<CHECK>, and C<use> blocks, because these are considered as
occurring outside the execution of your program. C<INIT> and
C<END> blocks, however, will be skipped.
--tom
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