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In some of these languages, this syntax is a here document or "heredoc": A token representing the string is put in the middle of a line of code, but the code continues after the starting token and the string's content doesn't appear until the next line. In other languages, the string's content starts immediately after the starting token and the ...
String functions are used in computer programming languages to manipulate a string or query information about a string (some do both).. Most programming languages that have a string datatype will have some string functions although there may be other low-level ways within each language to handle strings directly.
New say built-in (via feature say) Ability to declare static variables with state; 5.8.1 September 25, 2003 [1] Perl 5.8.1 Release Notes: Improved randomization of hash order, for security reasons. Unicode is not enabled by default based on locale settings. Version strings on the left of a fat comma are treated as string literals.
1960, IFIP WG 2.1, ISO [8] ALGOL 68: Application Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Concurrent Yes 1968, IFIP WG 2.1, GOST 27974-88, [9] Ateji PX: Parallel application No Yes No No No No pi calculus: No APL: Application, data processing: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Array-oriented, tacit: Yes 1989, ISO Assembly language: General Yes No No No No No
Generally, var, var, or var is how variable names or other non-literal values to be interpreted by the reader are represented. The rest is literal code. Guillemets (« and ») enclose optional sections.
The empty hash {} is also true; in this context {} is not an empty block, because perl -e 'print ref {}' returns HASH. Evaluated boolean expressions are also scalar values. The documentation does not promise which particular value of true or false is returned. Many boolean operators return 1 for true and the empty-string for false.
construction destruction ABAP Objects: data variable type ref to class . create object variable «exporting parameter = argument». [1][2] [3]APL (Dyalog) : variable←⎕NEW class «parameters»
Perl 5.6.1 and newer support autovivification of file and directory handles. [3] Calling open() on an undefined variable will set it to a filehandle. According to perl561delta, "[t]his largely eliminates the need for typeglobs when opening filehandles that must be passed around, as in the following example: