This read-only variable contains a reference to the last-read filehandle. This is set by <HANDLE>
, readline
, tell
, eof
and seek
. This is the same handle that $.
and tell
and eof
without arguments use. It is also the handle used when Perl appends ", <STDIN> line 1" to an error or warning message.
This variable was added in Perl v5.18.0.