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- =head1 NAME
-
- English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use English;
- ...
- if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
-
- =head1 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 $0) will still
- be affected.
-
- For those variables that have an B<awk> version, both long
- and short English alternatives are provided. For example,
- the C<$/> variable can be referred to either $RS or
- $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English module.
-
- See L<perlvar> for a complete list of these.
-
-