Well the thing will work but its useless because you
are not reading from the file here. You are applying
the while loop on a scalar instead of providing it
with the file desc that it needs for the "logical
processing".
--- "Daryl J. Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can pass in a variable it would be something
> like this:
>
> $lofile = " somefile";
> file_read($lofile) ;
>
> sub file_read($)
> {
> my ($file) = @_;
>
> while (<$file>)
>
> blah..blah..
>
> }
>
> Daryl J. Hoyt
> Software Engineer
> Geodesic Systems
> 312-832-2010
> < http://www.geodesic.com>
> < mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pravesh Biyani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: help with file reading
>
>
> Hi
> can i pass the file variable in the function..
>
> for eg.
>
> $lofile = " somefile";
>
> and call the function
>
> file_read(lofile) ;
>
> where function is :
>
>
> sub file_read
> {
>
> while (<$_[0]>)
>
> blah..blah..
>
> }
>
>
>
> Pravesh
>
>
>
>
>
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