Оператор соответствия по умолчанию использует $_
, но оператор <>
по умолчанию не сохраняется в $_
, если только он не используется в цикле while, поэтому ничего не сохраняется в $_
.
С perldoc perlop
:
I/O Operators
...
Ordinarily you must assign the returned value to a variable, but there
is one situation where an automatic assignment happens. If and only if
the input symbol is the only thing inside the conditional of a "while"
statement (even if disguised as a "for(;;)" loop), the value is auto‐
matically assigned to the global variable $_, destroying whatever was
there previously. (This may seem like an odd thing to you, but you’ll
use the construct in almost every Perl script you write.) The $_ vari‐
able is not implicitly localized. You’ll have to put a "local $_;"
before the loop if you want that to happen.
The following lines are equivalent:
while (defined($_ = )) { print; }
while ($_ = ) { print; }
while () { print; }
for (;;) { print; }
print while defined($_ = );
print while ($_ = );
print while ;
This also behaves similarly, but avoids $_ :
while (my $line = ) { print $line }