On Jan 29, Rob Dixon said:
>Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>>
>> while (<FILE>) {
>> print "small " if 1 .. 10;
>> print "medium " if 6 .. 15;
>> print "big " if 11 .. 20;
>> print "\n";
>> }
>
>Careful here Jeff. '..' compares its operands with $.
>(current record number) in a scalar context.
Yes, I know. That's the intent. The thing printed is describing the size
of the line number. This wasn't a typo.
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