Full documentation of predefined variables:perlvar
$_ - The default input and pattern-searching space
$a,$b - Special package variables when using sort(), see"sort" in perlfunc
$<digits> - Contains the subpattern from the corresponding set of capturing parentheses from the last pattern match, not counting patterns matched in nested blocks that have been exited already
$& - The string matched by the last successful pattern match (not counting any matches hidden within a BLOCK or eval() enclosed by the current BLOCK)
$` - The string preceding whatever was matched by the last successful pattern match (not counting any matches hidden within a BLOCK or eval enclosed by the current BLOCK)
$' - The string following whatever was matched by the last successful pattern match (not counting any matches hidden within a BLOCK or eval() enclosed by the current BLOCK)
$+ - The text matched by the last bracket of the last successful search pattern
$^N - The text matched by the used group most-recently closed (i.e. the group with the rightmost closing parenthesis) of the last successful search pattern
@+ - This array holds the offsets of the ends of the last successful submatches in the currently active dynamic scope
$* - Set to a non-zero integer value to do multi-line matching within a string, 0 (or undefined) to tell Perl that it can assume that strings contain a single line, for the purpose of optimizing pattern matches
$. - Current line number for the last filehandle accessed
$/ - The input record separator, newline by default
$| - If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after every write or print on the currently selected output channel
$, - The output field separator for the print operator
$\ - The output record separator for the print operator
$" - This is like$, except that it applies to array and slice values interpolated into a double-quoted string (or similar interpreted string)
$; - The subscript separator for multidimensional array emulation
$# - The output format for printed numbers
$% - The current page number of the currently selected output channel
$= - The current page length (printable lines) of the currently selected output channel
$- - The number of lines left on the page of the currently selected output channel
@- - $-[0] is the offset of the start of the last successful match
$~ - The name of the current report format for the currently selected output channel
$^ - The name of the current top-of-page format for the currently selected output channel
$: - The current set of characters after which a string may be broken to fill continuation fields (starting with ^) in a format
$^L - What formats output as a form feed
$^A - The current value of the write() accumulator for format() lines
$? - The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (``) command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator
${^ENCODING} - Theobject reference to the Encode object that is used to convert the source code to Unicode
$! - If used numerically, yields the current value of the Cerrno variable, or in other words, if a system or library call fails, it sets this variable
%! - Each element of%! has a true value only if$! is set to that value
$^E - Error information specific to the current operating system
$@ - The Perl syntax error message from the last eval() operator
$$ - The process number of the Perl running this script
$< - The real uid of this process
$> - The effective uid of this process
$( - The real gid of this process
$) - The effective gid of this process
$0 - Contains the name of the program being executed
$[ - The index of the first element in an array, and of the first character in a substring
$] - The version + patchlevel / 1000 of the Perl interpreter
$^C - The current value of the flag associated with the-c switch
$^D - The current value of the debugging flags
$^F - The maximum system file descriptor, ordinarily 2. System file descriptors are passed to exec()ed processes, while higher file descriptors are not
$^H - This variable contains compile-time hints for the Perl interpreter
%^H - The %^H hash provides the same scoping semantic as $^H. This makes it useful for implementation of lexically scoped pragmas
$^I - The current value of the inplace-edit extension
$^M - Perl can use the contents of$^M as an emergency memory pool after die()ing
$^O - The name of the operating system under which this copy of Perl was built, as determined during the configuration process
${^OPEN} - An internal variable used by PerlIO
$^P - The internal variable for debugging support
$^R - The result of evaluation of the last successful(?{ code }) regular expression assertion (seeperlre)
$^S - Current state of the interpreter
$^T - The time at which the program began running, in seconds since the epoch (beginning of 1970)
${^TAINT} - Reflects if taint mode is on or off
${^UNICODE} - Reflects certain Unicode settings of Perl
${^UTF8LOCALE} - This variable indicates whether an UTF-8 locale was detected by perl at startup
$^V - The revision, version, and subversion of the Perl interpreter, represented as a string composed of characters with those ordinals
$^W - The current value of the warning switch, initially true if-w was used, false otherwise, but directly modifiable
${^WARNING_BITS} - The current set of warning checks enabled by theuse warnings pragma
$^X - The name used to execute the current copy of Perl, from C'sargv[0] or (where supported)/proc/self/exe
ARGV - The special filehandle that iterates over command-line filenames in@ARGV
$ARGV - contains the name of the current file when reading from <>
@ARGV - The array @ARGV contains the command-line arguments intended for the script
ARGVOUT - The special filehandle that points to the currently open output file when doing edit-in-place processing with-i
@F - The array @F contains the fields of each line read in when autosplit mode is turned on
@INC - The array @INC contains the list of places that thedo EXPR,require, oruse constructs look for their library files
@_ - Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters passed to that subroutine
%INC - The hash %INC contains entries for each filename included via thedo,require, oruse operators
$ENV{expr} - The hash %ENV contains your current environment
$SIG{expr} - The hash %SIG contains signal handlers for signals
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