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Re: Re: On Scalar Context

by ambrus (Abbot)
on Apr 24, 2004 at 21:15 UTC ( [id://347892]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: On Scalar Context
in thread On Scalar Context

The perlfunc pod does define the return value of the 4-arg-select:

Most systems do not bother to return anything use- ful in $timeleft, so calling select() in scalar context just returns $nfound.

This is from the perlfunc manpage of perl 5.8.1.

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