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| author | Bram <perl-rt@wizbit.be> | 2008-04-27 23:13:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2008-04-27 20:04:30 +0000 |
| commit | 3d6c2ba7f810e9262a5ab163b7db957e54c6f909 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ccb2b42f7295ba8c45a1cb439fa33ebc13d434f /pod | |
| parent | 8241c1c0382dd31d3def3db892c79428fb5ea2fc (diff) | |
| download | perl-3d6c2ba7f810e9262a5ab163b7db957e54c6f909.tar.gz | |
doc patch for perlrun -x
Message-ID: <20080427211336.g8mvjusbcc4gwsk4@horde.wizbit.be>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33760
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 74fd0adcaa..a8458a8b7d 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -899,6 +899,14 @@ tells Perl that the program is embedded in a larger chunk of unrelated ASCII text, such as in a mail message. Leading garbage will be discarded until the first line that starts with #! and contains the string "perl". Any meaningful switches on that line will be applied. + +All references to line numbers by the program (warnings, errors, ...) +will treat the #! line as the first line. +Thus a warning on the 2nd line of the program (which is on the 100th +line in the file) will be reported as line 2, and not as line 100. +This can be overridden by using the #line directive. +(See L<perlsyn/"Plain-Old-Comments-(Not!)">) + If a directory name is specified, Perl will switch to that directory before running the program. The B<-x> switch controls only the disposal of leading garbage. The program must be terminated with |