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# English

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- BUGS

## NAME

English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables

## SYNOPSIS

        use English;
        ...
        if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }

## 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 awk version, both long and short English alternatives are provided. For example, the `$/` variable can be referred to either $RS or $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English module.

See the perlvar manpage for a complete list of these.

## BUGS

This module provokes sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions, due to unfortunate implementation details. If performance matters, consider avoiding English.

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