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- Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
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- use Symbol;
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- $sym = gensym;
- open($sym, "filename");
- $_ = <$sym>;
- # etc.
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- ungensym $sym; # no effect
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- print qualify("x"), "\n"; # "Test::x"
- print qualify("x", "FOO"), "\n" # "FOO::x"
- print qualify("BAR::x"), "\n"; # "BAR::x"
- print qualify("BAR::x", "FOO"), "\n"; # "BAR::x"
- print qualify("STDOUT", "FOO"), "\n"; # "main::STDOUT" (global)
- print qualify(\*x), "\n"; # returns \*x
- print qualify(\*x, "FOO"), "\n"; # returns \*x
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- use strict refs;
- print { qualify_to_ref $fh } "foo!\n";
- $ref = qualify_to_ref $name, $pkg;
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- use Symbol qw(delete_package);
- delete_package('Foo::Bar');
- print "deleted\n" unless exists $Foo::{'Bar::'};
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- Symbol::gensym creates an anonymous glob and returns a
- reference to it. Such a glob reference can be used as a
- file or directory handle.
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- For backward compatibility with older implementations that
- didn't support anonymous globs, Symbol::ungensym is also
- provided. But it doesn't do anything.
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- Symbol::qualify turns unqualified symbol names into
- qualified variable names (e.g. "myvar" ->
- "MyPackage::myvar"). If it is given a second parameter,
- qualify uses it as the default package; otherwise, it uses
- the package of its caller. Regardless, global variable
- names (e.g. "STDOUT", "ENV", "SIG") are always qualfied with
- "main::".
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- Qualification applies only to symbol names (strings).
- References are left unchanged under the assumption that they
- are glob references, which are qualified by their nature.
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- Symbol::qualify_to_ref is just like Symbol::qualify except
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- Symbol::delete_package wipes out a whole package namespace.
- Note this routine is not exported by default--you may want
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