On Apr 30, Harry Jackson said:
>#!perl
>#
># These are a must of course.
>use strict;
>use warnings;
>
># Note I am trying to avoid flames
># by including all the usaul
># warnings stricts etc
>
>#
>my $CurrentLine;
>
>#
># Please enter your own pathname
>#
>open (INFILE, "c:\\hello.txt") || die "Unable to open file $!";
>
>while ( defined($CurrentLine = <INFILE>)) {
Are you aware that when you do:
while ($CurrentLine = <INFILE>) { ... }
Perl puts the defined() in for you?
> print STDOUT "$CurrentLine";
"STDOUT" is unnecessary, as are the quotes.
The while loop could have been:
while (<INFILE>) { print }
> };
>
> close(INFILE);
>
>exit 0;
The exit() is also unnecessary.
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