Re: Conditional Operator STDIN

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 3, Balint, Jess said: Hello all. I am working on my script, and I would like to be able to use STDIN as a filehandle input unless a filename is specified. I have used the getopt for the filename, let's say $opt_f. I would use the magic of @ARGV and , and do this: @ARGV = $filename if

Re: Conditional Operator STDIN

2002-06-03 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 09:27 AM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jun 3, Balint, Jess said: Hello all. I am working on my script, and I would like to be able to use STDIN as a filehandle input unless a filename is specified. I have used the getopt for the filename, let's say $opt_f.

Re: Conditional Operator STDIN

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 3, bob ackerman said: @ARGV = $filename if $opt_f; why '' ? isn't '$filename' enough for get '' to open and read from that file? I feel safer when I explicitly state the mode. Unless you want the user to put 'foo |' as the filename (that is, the output of a pipe), then you should

Re: Conditional Operator STDIN

2002-06-03 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 10:37 AM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jun 3, bob ackerman said: @ARGV = $filename if $opt_f; why '' ? isn't '$filename' enough for get '' to open and read from that file? I feel safer when I explicitly state the mode. Unless you want the user to put

RE: Conditional Operator STDIN

2002-06-03 Thread Nikola Janceski
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:38 PM To: bob ackerman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Conditional Operator STDIN On Jun 3, bob ackerman said: @ARGV = $filename if $opt_f; why '' ? isn't '$filename' enough for get '' to open and read from that file

Re: Conditional Operator STDIN

2002-06-03 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 10:45 AM, bob ackerman wrote: On Monday, June 3, 2002, at 10:37 AM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jun 3, bob ackerman said: @ARGV = $filename if $opt_f; why '' ? isn't '$filename' enough for get '' to open and read from that file? I feel safer when