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so shift physically removes the entry in @ARGV? this is interesting and i did not realize that
Indeed it does:
$ cat shifter.pl #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; do { print "ARGV is @ARGV\n"; print "Shifting " . shift . " off ...\n"; } until $#ARGV < 0; $ ./shifter.pl x y z ARGV is x y z Shifting x off ... ARGV is y z Shifting y off ... ARGV is z Shifting z off ... $
See perldoc -f shift for more.
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