Re^3: Unusual coding arrangements in Perl

[philcrow]

The DATA handle is special. It is opened for you on program start and is ready to read from the __DATA__ section at the bottom of the program:

chomp ( my @some_data = <DATA> );
#...
__DATA__
lines
of
data
here

This is sometimes a convenient way to separate code from conf or other data, while leaving them in the same file for easier installation.

Phil