English

English

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

use English;
use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ;  # Avoids regex performance
                                    # penalty in perl 5.16 and
                                    # earlier
...
if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }

DESCRIPTION

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

For those variables that have an awk version, both long and short English alternatives are provided. For example, the <