Perl Programming/Keywords/readlink

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The readline keyword

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readlink is a function that returns the value of a symbolic link. If such links are not implemented, it raises an exception. If EXPRESSION is not passed, $_ is used instead. If there is a system error, returns the undef and sets $! (errno).

Syntax

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  read EXPRESSION
  read
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