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| author | Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com> | 2021-02-17 13:33:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2021-02-17 18:50:55 -0800 |
| commit | 83af6b626c6925bf6b3b47699049003954c1aa56 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c54069e1e246105bb052499b3cc052251ff40d9 | |
| parent | 1c97b6b159e3433bbeeb964c3f357cc57158cbb8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-83af6b626c6925bf6b3b47699049003954c1aa56.tar.gz | |
perlfunc - mention that rename sets $! on failure
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index b655a08ecc..e6cb0f3999 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -6560,7 +6560,8 @@ X<rename> X<move> X<mv> X<ren> =for Pod::Functions change a filename Changes the name of a file; an existing file NEWNAME will be -clobbered. Returns true for success, false otherwise. +clobbered. Returns true for success; on failure returns false and sets +L<C<$!>|perlvar/$!>. Behavior of this function varies wildly depending on your system implementation. For example, it will usually not work across file system |