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[perl #29675] -i vs. BEGIN and END

From:
Dan Jacobson
Date:
May 18, 2004 03:18
Subject:
[perl #29675] -i vs. BEGIN and END
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Please add a note to the -i section of the perlrun page, saying that
BEGIN and END output will not go where you expect them:

echo>z;perl -wlpi.ori -e 'BEGIN{print 1};s/^/2/;END{print 3}' z;echo ---;cat z
1
3
---
2
or fix the bug, if it is a bug.

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