English
English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
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use English;
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if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
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This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose
names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects
which get triggered just by accessing them (like
$0
) will still
be affected.
For those variables that have an awk version, both long
and short English alternatives are provided. For example,
the
$/
variable can be referred to either
$RS
or
$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR
if you are using the English module.
See
the perlvar manpage
for a complete list of these.