OK. I am new to perl, and only really use it as a hobby. I was writing a (very short) program to output certain lines from files specified at the command line. I noticed that, unless I use @ARGV = reverse @ARGV;, I get lines from the files in the reverse order in which I specified (Does that make sense?). In other words:
>perl myfile.pl file1 file2

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outputs in the form:
-----lines from file2-----
-----lines from file1-----
etc. Is this supposed to happen? I am using ActivePerl under Win32, if that makes any difference. Also, are such "pre-defined variables" (@ARGV, and the like) case-sensitive? My background is in such obsolescent languages as BASIC and Pascal, so I am not used to certain rules.

In reply to Stupid @ARGV question by jaubertmoniker

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