perlvar pod

From: "John L. Allen" <allen@grumman.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1020718153229.20591A@gateway.grumman.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17629

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 0672c4e..e522b3d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1225,6 +1225,13 @@ the script.  C<$#ARGV> is generally the number of arguments minus
 one, because C<$ARGV[0]> is the first argument, I<not> the program's
 command name itself.  See C<$0> for the command name.
 
+=item ARGVOUT
+
+The special filehandle that points to the currently open output file
+when doing edit-in-place processing with B<-i>.  Useful when you have
+to do a lot of inserting and don't want to keep modifying $_.  See
+L<perlrun> for the B<-i> switch.
+
 =item @F
 
 The array @F contains the fields of each line read in when autosplit