Perl Programming/Keywords/dump

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The dump keyword[edit | edit source]

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 | edit source]

  dump EXPRESSION
  dump LABEL
  dump

Examples[edit | edit source]

do "trigonometry.pl";
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