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@ARGV = 'echo 42 |';
print <>;     # prints 42
print $ARGV;  # prints echo 42|

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Unless I'm mistaken, this illustrates that both @ARGV and $ARGV are usually magic.

But I thing I got it. There's isn't actually any magic in @ARGV and $ARGV. It's just the magic *ARGV{IO} that pops @ARGV and writes $ARGV. Once the magic *ARGV{IO} is gone, those variables are nothing special. Or am I still completely mistaken?

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Re^4: Using the DATA file handle for ARGV
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 02, 2013 at 00:43 UTC

    Once the magic *ARGV{IO} is gone, those variables are nothing special. Or am I still completely mistaken?

    I think you're right. I think the magic belongs to readline ARGV , not readline *DATA, and when you do *ARGV = *DATA it makes *ARGV an alias for *DATA, doesn't make *DATA an alias for *ARGV, so *DATA has no magic 

    $ echo |perl -e " *ARGV = *DATA; print while <DATA> "

$ echo |perl -e " *DATA = *ARGV; print while <DATA> "
ECHO is on.

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