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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-02-17 23:30:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-02-17 23:30:47 +0000 |
| commit | 449bc448608ab0510bce029f04816fc3b63d7d6a (patch) | |
| tree | 347b0d5140ead6bdf2275b489af0e41593fa4b90 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 393d87f4ac33f9d41aea76fbc0a8b15060e22ec9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-449bc448608ab0510bce029f04816fc3b63d7d6a.tar.gz | |
correct slurp mode doc
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2969
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 1297e714ea..c4e9482f13 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2911,9 +2911,9 @@ reads until end-of-file is reached and returns a list of lines. Note that the notion of "line" used here is however you may have defined it with C<$/> or C<$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR>). See L<perlvar/"$/">. -When C<$/> is set to C<undef> and when readline() is in a scalar -context (i.e. file slurp mode), it returns C<''> the first time, -followed by C<undef> subsequently. +When C<$/> is set to C<undef>, when readline() is in a scalar +context (i.e. file slurp mode), and when an empty file is read, it +returns C<''> the first time, followed by C<undef> subsequently. This is the internal function implementing the C<E<lt>EXPRE<gt>> operator, but you can use it directly. The C<E<lt>EXPRE<gt>> |