Re^2: global vars and one liners

>perl -wMstrict -lne
"@::i{ /\w+/g } = () }{ print for keys %::i"  words2.txt
bar
baz
qux
foo
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OK, it works (Windose)! Now c'mon, how's it work? What's that strange }{ thingy in the middle of it all? Can you give a documentation ref. for more info on that?

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Re^3: global vars and one liners by ccn (Vicar) on Sep 15, 2009 at 19:21 UTC
It is so called eskimo operator: }{ see perldoc perlrun about -n switch and compare output of the following two commands `perl -MO=Deparse -ne "$a + $b" perl -MO=Deparse -ne "$a }{ $b"` [download] Note: double quotes because of Windows. Linux requires single quotes for the code given	[reply] [d/l]


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