February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
English
These special variables never need to be mentioned in a local, because they always refer to some value
pertaining to the currently selected output filehandle—each filehandle
keeps its own set of values. When you select another filehandle, the old filehandle
remembers the values it had for these variables, and the variables now
reflect the values of the new filehandle. See also the IO::Handle module.
$| ($AUTOFLUSH, $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH) $− ($FORMAT_LINES_LEFT) $= ($FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE) $~ ($FORMAT_NAME) $% ($FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER) $^ ($FORMAT_TOP_NAME)
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