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authorJohn L. Allen <allen@grumman.com>2002-07-18 11:37:07 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-07-18 18:37:43 +0000
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perlvar pod
From: "John L. Allen" <allen@grumman.com> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1020718153229.20591A@gateway.grumman.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17629
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@@ -1225,6 +1225,13 @@ the script. C<$#ARGV> is generally the number of arguments minus
one, because C<$ARGV[0]> is the first argument, I<not> the program's
command name itself. See C<$0> for the command name.
+=item ARGVOUT
+
+The special filehandle that points to the currently open output file
+when doing edit-in-place processing with B<-i>. Useful when you have
+to do a lot of inserting and don't want to keep modifying $_. See
+L<perlrun> for the B<-i> switch.
+
=item @F
The array @F contains the fields of each line read in when autosplit