in reply to perlrun: -a implicitly sets -n

It seems that feature was added somewhere between versions 5.18 & 5.20:

C:\test>\perl5.18\perl\bin\perl.exe -mstrict -waE"say @F" counts


C:\test>\perl5.18\perl\bin\perl.exe -mstrict -wanE"say @F" counts
00000018801880

C:\test>\Perl5.20\bin\perl.exe -mstrict -wanE"say @F" counts
00000018801880

C:\test>\Perl5.20\bin\perl.exe -mstrict -waE"say @F" counts
00000018801880

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Anyone got any experience of this phone's predecessor?

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Re^2: perlrun: -a implicitly sets -n
by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 30, 2015 at 23:35 UTC

    Yep, I did some research (and updated my first post). It became effective during 5.19 (officially available in 5.20).

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