I have some code from http://www.hyllander.org/node/23 that uses $*
("dollar asterisk" or "dollar star"), but my version of perl reports:
$* is no longer supported at migrate.pl line 284.
Do you know what were the side-effects of doing
$*=1
Did that somehow affect functions like split
or tokenizers or regular expressions?
Here's part of the output of
perldoc perlvar
: