Re: perldoc -lf anomaly

It seems

perldoc -lf whatever
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returns perlfunc and perlop regardless of what "whatever" is.

$ perldoc -lf anomaly
/home/choroba/localperl/lib/5.43.9/pod/perlfunc.pod
/home/choroba/localperl/lib/5.43.9/pod/perlop.pod
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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^2: perldoc -lf anomaly by Anonymous Monk on May 07, 2026 at 22:07 UTC
returns perlfunc and perlop regardless of what "whatever" is. $ perldoc -lf anomaly /home/choroba/localperl/lib/5.43.9/pod/perlfunc.pod /home/choroba/localperl/lib/5.43.9/pod/perlop.pod Thanks for looking into it choroba. These results clearly contradict the perldoc documentation: perldoc perldoc (and man perldoc) says: -l Display only the file name of the module found. perldoc --help says: -l Display the module's file name Here's another anomaly: % perldoc -lf splice /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/5.42.0/pods/perlfunc.pod /Users/u/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.42.0/lib/5.42.0/pods/perlop.pod % perldoc $_ No documentation found for "splice". % perldoc -v $_ 'splice' does not look like a Perl variable % perldoc -v '$_' $_ The default input and pattern-searching space... And another one: % perldoc -v '$_' $_ The default input and pattern-searching space... % perldoc -v '@_' @_ Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters... % perldoc -v '%_' No documentation for perl variable '%_' found	[reply]
Re^3: perldoc -lf anomaly by choroba (Cardinal) on May 07, 2026 at 22:13 UTC
I'm not sure about the "another anomaly". You get the documentation of splice for $_, as $_ without quotes is the shell variable which contains the last argument of the last command. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]