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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000
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+.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*-
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43)
+.\"
+.\" Standard preamble:
+.\" ========================================================================
+.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
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+.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text
+.ft CW
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+.de Ve \" End verbatim text
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+..
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+. ds C` ""
+. ds C' ""
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+.el\{\
+. ds C`
+. ds C'
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+.\"
+.\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
+.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index
+.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
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+. if \nF \{\
+. de IX
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+..
+. if !\nF==2 \{\
+. nr % 0
+. nr F 2
+. \}
+. \}
+.\}
+.rr rF
+.\" ========================================================================
+.\"
+.IX Title "English 3perl"
+.TH English 3perl 2024-02-11 "perl v5.38.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
+.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
+.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
+.if n .ad l
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+English \- use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
+.Vb 6
+\& use English;
+\& use English qw( \-no_match_vars ) ; # Avoids regex performance
+\& # penalty in perl 5.18 and
+\& # earlier
+\& ...
+\& if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
+.Ve
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
+This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose
+names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects
+which get triggered just by accessing them (like \f(CW$0\fR) will still
+be affected.
+.PP
+For those variables that have an \fBawk\fR version, both long
+and short English alternatives are provided. For example,
+the \f(CW$/\fR variable can be referred to either \f(CW$RS\fR or
+\&\f(CW$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR\fR if you are using the English module.
+.PP
+See perlvar for a complete list of these.
+.SH PERFORMANCE
+.IX Header "PERFORMANCE"
+NOTE: This was fixed in perl 5.20. Mentioning these three variables no
+longer makes a speed difference. This section still applies if your code
+is to run on perl 5.18 or earlier.
+.PP
+This module can provoke sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions,
+due to unfortunate implementation details. If performance matters in
+your application and you don't need \f(CW$PREMATCH\fR, \f(CW$MATCH\fR, or \f(CW$POSTMATCH\fR,
+try doing
+.PP
+.Vb 1
+\& use English qw( \-no_match_vars ) ;
+.Ve
+.PP
+\&. \fBIt is especially important to do this in modules to avoid penalizing
+all applications which use them.\fR