Re^2: what does "$@" mean?

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Hi,

thanks for your reply. I have checked "perldoc -v '$@' " at my RHE4 with perl v5.8.5, but it shows "No documents found for '$@' ". I then checked the link you provided (Error Variables) to find an explanation as this:

$@ is set if the string to be eval-ed did not compile (this may happen if open or close were imported with bad prototypes), or if Perl code executed during evaluation die()d. In these cases the value of $@ is the compile error, or the argument to die (which will interpolate $! and $? ).

Is this mean $@ is only used to contain reasons why perl failed? Thanks.

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Re^3: what does "$@" mean? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 22, 2013 at 03:30 UTC
The Perl special variable `$@` holds the reason why `eval` failed during compilation or execution. See the discussion of eval in perlfunc. Perl failures may have causes that do not originate in `eval`, and the reasons (actually, error message strings or numeric codes) for these failures are held in other error variables.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: what does "$@" mean? by LanX (Saint) on Jan 22, 2013 at 03:43 UTC
> I have checked "perldoc -v '$@' " at my RHE4 with perl v5.8.5, but it shows "No documents found for '$@' ". Neither does 5.10, cause the -v switch was redefined for newer Perl versions! But the online doc has variable search, at least for the current versions. Cheers Rolf	[reply]
Re^4: what does "$@" mean? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2013 at 03:45 UTC
Pod::Perldoc, its on cpan, update yours today, get the -v switch	[reply]
Re^5: what does "$@" mean? by LanX (Saint) on Jan 22, 2013 at 03:57 UTC
> update yours today Personally I don't need to, searching X-tags is more efficient. Perldoc Keyword Search (update3) Cheers Rolf	[reply]

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