Kevin wrote:
Could someone please direct me to some web pages where I can go through
all deprecated perl functions and/or ways of writing perl script? It is
not easy for me to figure out whether an on-line example is deprecated or
not. I once saw:
@files = <$path_to_directory>
on the web and found it worked perfectly, then kept using this way of
writing my perl script. But I was told yesterday such a script is
deprecated now.
AFAIK that is not deprecated.
I searched the internet for awhile and did not find a
good resource. Please give me a couple of links if you know.
You search the documents that come with perl, for example:
$ perldoc -t perlfunc | grep -B 2 deprecated
Use of "defined" on aggregates (hashes and arrays) is
deprecated. It used to report whether memory for that aggregate
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do SUBROUTINE(LIST)
This form of subroutine call is deprecated. See perlsub.
--
you are strongly advised not to make use of this feature. Its
use can cause unexpected behaviour, even crashing some versions
of Perl. It is deprecated, and will be removed from a future
--
In scalar context, returns the number of fields found and splits
into the @_ array. Use of split in scalar context is deprecated,
John
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