X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlvar.pod;h=dfb17e3eed59c10a747d58577f31af6b001e3bd9;hb=14bb0a9a08468b34d6bd39a990c2bd5d097cab1f;hp=72cb625ae8ae5cafcd5580b86dac5d985593f295;hpb=9ce5b4ad89f76922e208c6d250bb5f1abd31555c;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 72cb625..dfb17e3 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ In the above I stands for anything: zero, non-zero, C. A successful system or library call does B set the variable to zero. -If used an a string, yields the corresponding system error string. +If used as a string, yields the corresponding system error string. You can assign a number to C<$!> to set I if, for instance, you want C<"$!"> to return the string for error I, or you want to set the exit value for the die() operator. (Mnemonic: What just