>>>>> ""Matthew" == "Matthew J Avitable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Matthew> You could also invoke perl 5.8's ability to treat an in-memory string as a "Matthew> file: You can, but that's rapidly sliding into "obfuscation" territory. You already have the data... why shove it out as a filehandle and back in line by line, when all you need to do is split the data up by lines? string-as-filehandle is mostly to work around legacy systems that want a filehandle but you actually want the data in memory. Don't invent *new* interfaces that *require* their use. Ugh. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
