On Jan 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>That's right. But let me add my 5cents to it. If you decide to use the
>construct "while ( <MYFILE> )..." then it better be
>while( defined(<MYFILE>) ) {
>//...
>}
Not so. First, doing defined(<MYFILE>) does not store a line in $_ -- for
that, you'd need defined($_ = <MYFILE>). Second, while
(<FH>) automatically becomes while (defined($_ = <FH>)). See the perlsyn
documentation.
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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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