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`perl --help' or `perldoc perlrun'


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Re: Re: Re: Re: How To Count Lines In File?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jan 28, 2003 at 02:11 UTC
    Which states, “causes Perl to assume the following loop around your program”. It doesn't say that this is done by pasting text before parsing it. I always supposed it was done deeper in the interpreter, after parsing.