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CONTENTS

NAME

perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary

DESCRIPTION

The biggest trap of all is forgetting to use warnings or use the -w switch; see warnings and perlrun. The second biggest trap is not making your entire program runnable under use strict. The third biggest trap is not reading the list of changes in this version of Perl; see perldelta.

Awk Traps

Accustomed awk users should take special note of the following:

C/C++ Traps

Cerebral C and C++ programmers should take note of the following:

JavaScript Traps

Judicious JavaScript programmers should take note of the following:

Sed Traps

Seasoned sed programmers should take note of the following:

Shell Traps

Sharp shell programmers should take note of the following:

Perl Traps

Practicing Perl Programmers should take note of the following:

As always, if any of these are ever officially declared as bugs, they'll be fixed and removed.