Perl Programming/Keywords/dump

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The dump keyword edit

The dump function causes an immediate core dump. It is like a goto with an intervening core dump and a following reincarnation, where all the files that were open just before the core dump are closed. When starting again, the program starts at the LABEL.

Syntax edit

  dump EXPRESSION
  dump LABEL
  dump

Examples edit

do "trigonometry.pl";
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