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Fellow monks,
While trying to learn more about the symbol table I printed out %main:: in a script whose only imported package was strict. The code and it's output are below, can anyone tell me what the mystery entries are on lines 5, 11, and 14 of the output text? Apparently the standard windows charset doesn't represent them?
TIA
jg

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while (my ($k, $v) = each %::) {
  print "key is $k, value is $v\n";
}

key is STDOUT, value is *main::STDOUT
key is @, value is *main::@
key is ARGV, value is *main::ARGV
key is STDIN, value is *main::STDIN
key is , value is *main::
key is attributes::, value is *main::attributes::
key is DB::, value is *main::DB::
key is _<..\xsutils.c, value is *main::_<..\xsutils.c
key is _<perllib.c, value is *main::_<perllib.c
key is UNIVERSAL::, value is *main::UNIVERSAL::
key is , value is *main::
key is <none>::, value is *main::<none>::
key is DynaLoader::, value is *main::DynaLoader::
key is , value is *main::
key is Win32::, value is *main::Win32::
key is BEGIN, value is *main::BEGIN
key is stderr, value is *main::stderr
key is INC, value is *main::INC
key is _, value is *main::_
key is ", value is *main::"
key is _<.\win32.c, value is *main::_<.\win32.c
key is $, value is *main::$
key is stdout, value is *main::stdout
key is IO::, value is *main::IO::
key is ENV, value is *main::ENV
key is strict::, value is *main::strict::
key is stdin, value is *main::stdin
key is CORE::, value is *main::CORE::
key is /, value is *main::/
key is 0, value is *main::0
key is _<..\universal.c, value is *main::_<..\universal.c
key is STDERR, value is *main::STDERR
key is main::, value is *main::main::
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