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=item ${^TAINT}
X<${^TAINT}>

Reflects if taint mode is on or off.  1 for on (the program was run with
B<-T>), 0 for off, -1 when only taint warnings are enabled (i.e. with
B<-t> or B<-TU>).

Note: if your perl was built without taint support (see L<perlsec>),
then C<${^TAINT}> will always be 0, even if the program was run with B<-T>).

This variable is read-only.

This variable was added in Perl v5.8.0.

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