[Israel.pm] mangled $_
migo at homemail.com
Thu Dec 23 07:15:16 PST 2004
On 23 Dec 2004 16:58:58 +0200, Jason Friedman wrote:
> I am using a CPAN module, Text::Capitalize (it properly capitilizes
> titles), but it "mangles" my $_. To get around it, I am doing:
> my $underscore = $_;
> my $cap_title = capitalize_title($1,PRESERVE_ALLCAPS => 1);
> $_ = $underscore;
> Is there a better way of doing this or at least being warned?
Your solution is acceptable. A better way would be to fix
Text::Capitalize, i.e. replace this line:
$_ = $word;
local $_ = $word;
perl -e 'print+chr(64+hex)for+split//,d9b815c07f9b8d1e'
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