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English(3)
NAME
  English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables

SYNOPSIS
      use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ;  # Avoids regex performance penalty
      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 perlvar for a complete list of these.

PERFORMANCE
  This module can provoke sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions,
  due to unfortunate implementation details.  If performance matters in your
  application and you don't need $PREMATCH, $MATCH, or $POSTMATCH, try doing

     use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ;

  .  It is especially important to do this in modules to avoid penalizing all
  applications which use them.

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