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Re: what is \ in perl

by HuckinFappy (Pilgrim)
on Jun 22, 2006 at 03:38 UTC ( [id://556820]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to what is \ in perl

And it does things which you may not expect. Well, I didn't expect them, but when I think about it, things make sense: 
  DB<15> $bar = \do { my $n = @INC ; "$n entries in \@INC" }

  DB<16> print $$bar
6 entries in @INC

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