On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 09:45:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What does the construct "}{" mean? As in
>
>
> $ perl -pe ' } { $_="foo\n"' /dev/null
> foo
>
> I figure it has to do with how the -p switch affects the script that
> is passed to the interpreter. Is this documented anywhere?
from the perlrun manpage:
-p causes Perl to assume the following loop around your
program, which makes it iterate over filename argu�
ments somewhat like sed:
LINE:
while (<>) {
... # your program goes here
} continue {
print or die "-p destination: $!\n";
}
cheers
sc
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