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Re: Re: Save all but line 32!by jmcnamara (Monsignor) |
on Sep 19, 2002 at 07:59 UTC ( [id://199096]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Very nice. ++ I like the twisted logic but the best part is the bare $ at the end. I had to run it through B::Deparse to see what was happening:
It shows that in this case $ gets interpreted as $; the subscript separator. However, this means that your code inserts an extra character in the file as shown by this: perl -pe '$.-32or$_=$' file | cat -A But I'm still not sure why perl inserts that semicolon. It doesn't in other cases:
Anyone have an explanation for this last point? Update: blakem's answer below is right. This last case is a perl 5.005 issue with B::Deparse.
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