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That certainly is a curiously obscure assertion, given the performance statements a bit later in the documentation. I think you're correct that something is missing here, but I'm not sure it's "once at the end".

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Re^7: Best practice for reading delimited file
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Oct 16, 2013 at 21:18 UTC

    Its just that that's the first thing you see when doing a search-find for the name. It makes it sound like you get all the performance penalties associated with $`.

    If it has all the same penalties as before then its clearly bad to use, so further details don't really matter. ;)

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