Re^2: perldoc -lf anomaly

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

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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],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: perldoc -lf anomaly by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 08, 2026 at 06:09 UTC
These results clearly contradict the perldoc documentation: That's not true. The docs don't say what happens if you use `-l` with `-f func` instead of a module. Here's another anomaly What do you think is anomalous? That it's looking up `splice` instead of `$_`? That's your error. You interpolated shell variable `$_` into your shell command, and it apparently had the value `splice`. And another one: What do you think is anomalous? That output is correct too, and I have no idea what you think is wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: perldoc -lf anomaly by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 08, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
These results clearly contradict the perldoc documentation: That's not true. The docs don't say what happens if you use `-l` with `-f func` instead of a module. Here's another anomaly What do you think is anomalous? That it's looking up `splice` instead of `$_`? That's your error. You interpolated shell variable `$_` into your shell command, and it apparently had the value `splice`. And another one: What do you think is anomalous? That output is correct too, and I have no idea what you think is wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]