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Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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NAME

English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables

SYNOPSIS

    use English;    ...    if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }

DESCRIPTION

This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whosenames no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effectswhich get triggered just by accessing them (like $0) will still be affected.

For those variables that have an awk version, both longand short English alternatives are provided. For example, the $/ variable can be referred to either $RS or $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English module.

See the perlvar manpage for a complete list of these.

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