HI Shlomi,
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:57:25 Shlomi Fish wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > while (<STDIN>) {
> > my $line=$_;
>
> Why are you doing this instead of:
>
> [code]
> while (my $line = <STDIN>)
> {
> }
> [/code]
>
For two reason, (1) I've not written Perl in ages and forgotten much of the
style and syntax and (2) I copied the code straight from an example on a perl
tutorial page.
> I should also note that normall <ARGV> (shortened as <>) is preferable to
> <STDIN>. See:
>
> http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/
>
I've read the page, and changed my code accordingly.
Thank you.
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
> > and now it works perfectly.
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