pl - Swiss Army Knife of Perl One-Liners

There are always those tasks too menial for dedicated script, but still too
cumbersome even with the many neat one-liner options of "perl -E".  This small
script fills the gap with many bells & whistles: Various one-letter commands &
magic variables (with meaningful aliases too) and more nifty loop options take
Perl programming to the command line.  List::Util is fully imported.  If you
pass no program on the command line, starts a simple Perl Shell.

How to "e(cho)" values, including from "@A(RGV)", with single "$q(uote)" &
double "$Q(uote)".  Same for hard-to-print values:

    pl 'echo "${quote}Perl$quote", "$Quote@ARGV$Quote"' one liner
    pl 'e "${q}Perl$q", "$Q@A$Q"' one liner

    pl 'echo \"Perl", \@ARGV, undef' one liner
    pl 'e \"Perl", \@A, undef' one liner

Loop over args, printing each with line ending.  And same, shouting:

    pl -opl '' Perl one liner
    pl -opl '$_ = uc' Perl one liner

Print up to 3 matching lines, resetting count (and "$.") for each file:

    pl -rP3 '/Perl.*one.*liner/' file*

Count hits in magic statistics hash "%N(UMBER)":

    pl -n '++$N{$1} while /(Perl|one|liner)/g' file*

Though they are sometimes slightly, sometimes quite a bit more complicated,
most Perl one-liners from the internet work, just by omitting "-e" or "-E".
Known minor differences are:

* don't "goto LINE", but "next LINE" is fine

* in a "-n" loop "last" is per file instead of behaving like "exit"

* using "pop", etc. to implicitly modify "@A(RGV)" works in "-B" begin code,
but not in your main program (which gets compiled to a function)

* shenanigans with unbalanced braces won't work