Thanks very much for Anthiny and others for the explanation. Li
--- Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > basically, BEGIN { } is a block which gets called > whenever the script > begins. > > > > On 5/1/06, chen li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Recently I read some source codes of perl modules. > I > > find some codes look like this: > > > > BEGIN {..................} > > > > What is the function of BEGIN here? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Li > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <http://learn.perl.org/> > <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > > > > > > > -- > Anthony Ettinger > Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>