RE: help with file reading

2002-10-07 Thread Daryl J. Hoyt
You can pass in a variable it would be something like this: $lofile = somefile; file_read($lofile) ; sub file_read($) { my ($file) = @_; while ($file) blah..blah.. } Daryl J. Hoyt Software Engineer Geodesic Systems 312-832-2010 http://www.geodesic.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with file reading

2002-10-07 Thread Dharmender Rai
Read the Hashed Part () --- Pravesh Biyani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi can i pass the file variable in the function.. for eg. $lofile = somefile; and call the function ## The way you have defined file_read ## you should pass the handle of the file ## by opening it here

RE: help with file reading

2002-10-07 Thread Dharmender Rai
Well the thing will work but its useless because you are not reading from the file here. You are applying the while loop on a scalar instead of providing it with the file desc that it needs for the logical processing. --- Daryl J. Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can pass in a variable it