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See that first line in my the code? It says use 5.010;. The // operator was new in perl 5.10. It's not new anymore now.

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Re^4: "Safe" print?
by dd-b (Pilgrim) on May 14, 2013 at 19:17 UTC

    And that's right where I am (CENTOS 6 packaged Perl).

    I know and heartily approve the "//" operator (except when I somehow get confused and use backslashes), but don't want to have to write special code each time I print something that I can't prove is defined quickly. However, the Dumper suggestion (and related) is useful, I'm just embarrassed I didn't think of it myself (that's for complex structures! In debugging!).

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      don't want to have to write special code each time I print something

      Then write a subroutine and call that every time.

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