$_ | The default or implicit variable. |
@_ | Subroutine parameters. |
$a $b | sort comparison routine variables. |
Regular Expressions | |
$<digit> | Regexp parenthetical capture holders. |
$& | Last successful match (degrades performance). |
$` | Prematch for last successful match string (degrades performance). |
$' | Postmatch for last successful match string (degrades performance). |
$+ | Last paren match. |
$^N | Last closed paren match. |
@+ | Offsets of ends of successful submatches in scope. |
@- | Offsets of starts of successful submatches in scope. |
$* | Boolean for multi-line matching. Deprecated. Use /s and /m. |
$^R | Last regexp (?{code}) result. |
IO and Separators | |
$. | Current line number (or record number) of most recent filehandle. |
$/ | Input record separator. |
$| | Output autoflush. 1=autoflush, 0=default |
$, | Output field separator (lists) |
$/ | Output record separator. |
$" | Output list separator. (interpolated lists) |
$; | Subscript separator. (Use a real multidimensional array instead.) |
Formats | |
$# | Output format for printed numbers (deprecated). |
$% | Page number for currently selected output channel. |
$= | Current page length. |
$- | Number of lines left on page. |
$~ | Format name. |
$^ | Name of top-of-page format. |
$: | Format line break characters |
$^L | Form feed (default "/f"). |
$^A | Format Accumulator |
Status Reporting | |
$? | Child error. Status code of most recent system call or pipe. |
$! | Operating System Error. (What just went 'bang'?) |
%! | Error number hash |
$^E | Extended Operating System Error (Extra error explanation). |
$@ | Eval error. |
ID's and Process Information | |
$$ | Process ID |
$< | Real user id of process. |
$> | Effective user id of process. |
$( | Real group id of process. |
$) | Effective group id of process. |
$0 | Program name. |
$^O | Operating System name. |
Perl Status Info | |
$] | Version and patch number of perl interpreter. |
$^C | Current value of flag associated with -c switch. |
$^D | Current value of debugging flags |
$^F | Maximum file descriptor. |
$^I | Value of the -i (inplace edit) switch. |
$^M | Emergency Memory pool. |
$^P | Internal variable for debugging support. |
$^R | Last regexp (?{code}) result. |
$^S | Exceptions being caught. (eval) |
$^T | Base time of program start. |
$^V | Perl version. |
$^W | Status of -w switch |
$^X | Perl executable name. |
Command Line Args | |
ARGV | Filehandle iterates over files from command line (see also <> ). |
$ARGV | Name of current file when reading <> |
@ARGV | List of command line args. |
ARGVOUT | Output filehandle for -i switch |
Miscellaneous | |
@F | Autosplit (-a mode) recipient. |
@INC | List of library paths. |
%INC | Keys are filenames, values are paths to modules included via use, require, or do . |
%ENV | Hash containing current environment variables |
%SIG | Signal handlers. |
$[ | Array and substr first element (Deprecated!). |