Re: [MacPerl] Unexpected behavior from tr function

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:44:33PM +0000, ntyson@mail.thesquare.com wrote:
> 
> $_ is a reserved statement in Perl signifying an input line character.  

$_ is a term, not a statement.  It is the default variable for functions
and operators that have optional arguments.  Input can be read into any
variable; <> assigns to $_ only by default.  Please review the perlvar
documentation.

Ronald

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