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June 24, 2010 13:19
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Little-used features list: | |
-P option | |
-u option | |
dump | |
... | |
.. in scalar context | |
formats: | |
in general | |
$: to control line breaking in a ^.... field | |
$% current format output page number | |
$= format number of lines per page | |
$^L format form feed character | |
$- format number of lines left on current page | |
formline | |
s''' | |
?...? | |
reset to reset ?...? matches | |
reset to undef variables | |
$x{$k1,$k2} and $; | |
Symbol table hash %P:: | |
Function exporting with *foo = *bar | |
$^P debugger mode variable | |
study | |
$+ | |
sin, cos, atan2 | |
log, exp | |
rewinddir | |
getprotoent, getprotobyname, endprotoent, etc. | |
msg* | |
sem* | |
shm* | |
fileno | |
ioctl | |
fcntl | |
$# | |
syscall | |
package; | |
Responses: | |
I personally have used that feature more than once. | |
I used that feature once. | |
I have never used that feature, but I am familiar with it | |
and I have seen other people use it. | |
I have never seen anyone use that feature, but I am familiar with it. | |
I was aware of that feature, but was not familiar with the details. | |
I had no idea there was such a feature. | |
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I've used a surprising number of these; not always for good reasons.
package;
I've used in the past, but now gives a syntax error, at least as of 5.10.0. -- PJF