SPUG: Automagic non-matching in -B files

[Ben Reser]

n Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:52:23PM -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
> I've just discovered that
> 
>   perl -wlne 'print "Processing $. in $ARGV\n"; /./ and print' $HOME
> 
> indicates that Perl automagically disallows any processing of records
> from the (binary) file, without warning or die'ing (instead of trashing
> the screen with spurious binary match-data, like commercial *grep*).
> 
> Does anybody know where this is documented?  I can't find it under
> perldoc -tf open, which seems like the right place to look.

prints binary stuff out for me.  When I do:
perl -wlne 'print "Processing $. in $ARGV\n"; /./ and print' /bin/ls >
out

I get ELF output as I would expect.  Tried it with perl 5.8.0 and 5.8.1
RC4.

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