[ Please stop this top-posting!! And David, you'd better ask your Perl questions of general interest to the list. ]

Kashif Salman wrote:
David Moreno wrote:
Kashif Salman wrote:
David Moreno wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008 4:47 PM, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

lstat $filename;
my $size = -s _;

Did you mean:

my $size = -s $_;

Perl already has all the info from the previous lstat command, using _
is more efficient in that it doesn't have to do another system call.

That is very interesting, actually. What piece of documentation should I
read to learn about this operators?

I am not sure how to bring it up using the perldoc, I read it when I
was going through the book "Learning Perl". Maybe someone else here
can point out how to find it in perldoc..

    perldoc -f -X

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