Re: •Re: Re: Undocumented variable?

[Dog and Pony]

in reply to •Re: Re: Undocumented variable?
in thread Undocumented variable?

ARGVOUT

This is a new one for me. What/how is that used?

Update: Never mind, found it. Though I see I already got a reply, thanks! (and downvotes for an honest question, some people are just too funny ;~) Still, was a new one to me... ah well.

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From perlvar (5.8.0):
ARGVOUT

The special filehandle that points to the currently open output file when doing edit-in-place processing with -i. Useful when you have to do a lot of inserting and don't want to keep modifying $_. See perlrun for the -i switch.

Note: While it is mentioned in the Perl documentation prior to version 5.8.0, I have yet to see it explained in such a way.