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[Dennis Moore]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 08:29:59AM -0700, ASCII wrote:
> bug?
> 
> under discussion: 
> 	irc:		irc.openprojects.net 
> 	channel:  	#perl
> 
> for anyone that's got Friday off and need something to do.

from perlform:

       Picture fields that begin with ^ rather than @ are treated
       specially.  With a # field, the field is blanked out if
       the value is undefined.  For other field types, the caret
       enables a kind of fill mode.  Instead of an arbitrary
       expression, the value supplied must be a scalar variable
       name that contains a text string.  Perl puts as much text
       as it can into the field, and then chops off the front of
       the string so that the next time the variable is
       referenced, more of the text can be printed.  (Yes, this
       means that the variable itself is altered during execution
       of the write() call, and is not returned.)

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