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Perl Programming/Keywords/warn

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The warn keyword

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warn prints the LIST to STDERR. If the last LIST element is not a newline, it appends the same file/line number text as die does. If the output is empty and the variable $@ contains already a value, this is used after appending "\t...caught" to $@. If this variable is empty, the string "Warning: Something's wrong" is used.

If a $SIG{__WARN__} is installed, no message is printed. With the __WARN__ handler, all the warnings can be suppressed.

Syntax

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  warn LIST

Examples

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warn "\$foo is alive and $foo!";
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