On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 15:21, redtigra <redti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rob,
>
> GREAT thanks, your explanantion is very detailed and very clear. Looks
> like I don't have a clear understanding regarding -n option, so I have
> something for reading for the evening :)
snip
When trying to understand what Perl is doing behind the scenes it is
often useful to use [B::Deparse][1]:
perl -MO=Deparse -ne 'print "foo\n"'
yields:
LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) {
print "foo\n";
}
[1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/B/Deparse.html
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