From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2007-06-05T22:48:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Question about getc Hi, In message "Re: Question about getc" on Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:15:06 +0900, "Sun Park" writes: |If we call gets(), the returned string is copied to a special variable $_ |Do we have such things for getc(), too? No, implicit global variables are evil. I'd rather remove $_ in the future. matz.