Working on some Perl and encountered the below statement however, could not gather what does the below statement means. Checked at some Perl documentation sites also like https://perldoc.perl.org/variables but couldn’t find a similar example.
*INPUT_DATA =\ 0;
>Solution :
In short, * denotes a "typeglob", which is an internal type holding the values of all global variables of the given name. It’s still sometimes used for filehandles in older code or to create aliases.
See perldata for the explanation of typeglobs, and also see the links recommended at the end of the page, i.e. perlvar, perlref, perlsub, and perlmod.