Hi Gary,
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 14:42:56 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah, which Perl tutorial? Just so I see if it should be avoided.
> > 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.
>
Nice.
> Thank you.
You're welcome.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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