reset
- reset
Generally used in a
continue
block at the end of a loop to clear variables and reset??
searches so that they work again. The expression is interpreted as a list of single characters (hyphens allowed for ranges). All variables and arrays beginning with one of those letters are reset to their pristine state. If the expression is omitted, one-match searches (?pattern?
) are reset to match again. Only resets variables or searches in the current package. Always returns 1. Examples:Resetting
"A-Z"
is not recommended because you'll wipe out your@ARGV
and@INC
arrays and your%ENV
hash. Resets only package variables; lexical variables are unaffected, but they clean themselves up on scope exit anyway, so you'll probably want to use them instead. See my.