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Just be careful that the ARGV filehandle is not currently open on another file, otherwise it won't quite do what you expected.

Update: localizing the entire *ARGV glob works, but doesn't work in less than recent Perls - it breaks on less than 5.8, IIRC 5.6 - see (tye)Re: Cheap idioms.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re^2: include statement in perl?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 31, 2003 at 12:26 UTC

    If it's good enough for tye, it's good enough for me:)

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