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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: turning on warnings from within a script
Message-ID: <1991May16.072135.6394@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 07:21:35 GMT
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In article <1991May16.002134.11005@uunet.uu.net>, rbj@uunet (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>You didn't go and put real control Ws into your script now did you?

I can see it now...

             invisible control-W
             |
             v 
$ perl -we '$=1;'
Control character in script may cause problems at /tmp/perl-ea03984 line 1.

perl -e 'print"Just another ",$0=~/(\w+)-/," hacker,"'