On Jan 1, 2008 12:21 PM, yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can skip the array assignment and just do:
>
> foreach ( split "\n", $scalar ) {
> ...
> }
>
> I predict a reply that uses map()... though I think that using a map
> isn't really another solution, but just an alternative to the for
> loop.
>
> map {stuff}, split "\n", $scalar;
>
> But I think the answer is basically as you said. Use split.
> Then again, you ought to be able to open a pipe and print the scalar
> to the pipe and use the:
> while <HANDLE>
> syntax. I'm not sure how exactly the newlines would get treated in
> that scenario...
snip
If you have a recent enough version of Perl* you can say
open my $fh, "<", \$scalar
or die "could not attach a file handle to \$scalar: $!";
while (my $line = <$fh>) {
chomp($line);
#do stuff with $line
}
* 5.8 can do this, but I am not sure about 5.6.*
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