On Aug 24, 1:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yoyoyo Yoyoyoyo) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the diamond operator to redirect input to my perl script. I want
> to copy all of the input on to a single variable using the following
> subroutine:
>
> sub getfile # Copies the file redirected to this perl script to the varialbe
> $x
> {
> my $x;
> local $/ = undef;
> $x = <>;
> return $x;
>
> }
>
> The problem is that when I try to print what the above subroutine returns,
> the program kindof hangs. That is, it doesn't just print the output and then
> send me back to the command line, instead I have to press Ctrl-c to break out
> of it, like it is expecting input from the keyboard.
I'm willing to bet you're calling your script by doing:
$ ./file.pl < text.txt
when you should be doing:
$ ./file.pl text.txt
That is, let <> read from the command line argument, rather than
having it read from STDIN and redirecting the process's STDIN to be
from this file.
Paul Lalli
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