Re^2: Why won't say act like say when its tied?

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print appends the value of $\ to the end of whatever is passed to print, so if $\="***\n", then {print "hello", "\n"; } outputs "hello\n***\n" not plain "hello\n". That's why it is important for say to set local $\="\n" and not just add "\n" to the end of the list of things to print. Hope that helps.

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Re^3: Why won't say act like say when its tied? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2011 at 19:45 UTC
Thanks, it does. So the intended behavior for say is to write exactly what the programmer intended plus \n without side effects from punctuation variables. Good to know.	[reply]

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