On Jan 2, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC said:
>Thanks so much - only one problem: when I try to use while (my $line =
><MYFILE>) { etc } I get a bunch of errors similar to this one:
>
>Use of uninitialized value at JustForTest.pl line 13, <MYFILE> chunk 5.
>
>Do you know what I am doing wrong?
The code given you has an error. You read the line into $line, but the
regex is being tested on $_. Either do:
while (<MYFILE>) {
next if /^\s*$/;
# ...
}
or
while (my $line = <MYFILE>) {
next if $line =~ /^\s*$/;
# ...
}
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