Perl Programming/Keywords/AUTOLOAD

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The AUTOLOAD keyword

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AUTOLOAD is a keyword that is used to mark a subroutine for autoloading. This subroutine is called, if a subroutine that doesn't exist was called with exactly the same number of arguments.

Syntax

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  sub AUTOLOAD BLOCK

Examples

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sub AUTOLOAD {
  my $callit = $AUTOLOAD;
  []
  system($callit, @_);
}
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