Re: BEGIN blocks

2001-07-19 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Miles Sapp wrote: > Can someone please explain what a BEGIN block does? I see from my books > and online documentation that BEGIN blocks are run at compile time and > are run only once, but I'm not sure how that's different from any other > perl cod

BEGIN blocks

2001-07-19 Thread Miles Sapp
Hi, Can someone please explain what a BEGIN block does? I see from my books and online documentation that BEGIN blocks are run at compile time and are run only once, but I'm not sure how that's different from any other perl code that's not in a loop. Also, in my test script (b