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eval((stat($tty))[9])

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What does that accomplish that this doesn't: 
(stat($tty))[9]

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except not waste CPU time turning a number into a string into executable code, just to run that code and get the number back?

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Re: •Re: Keeping interactive net session alive
by gnu@perl (Pilgrim) on Oct 30, 2002 at 18:48 UTC
    Thanks for pointing that out. It was a remnant from something else I was doing and then changed it around. I will edit it out now.
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