getting file on STDIN, howto process GLOB

2002-10-16 Thread zentara
Hi, I'm looking at a script that takes a file on STDIN. ### #!/usr/bin/perl my $input = \*STDIN; print "$input\n"; ## If I run it "script < somefile" the result is GLOB(0x123ab458) What can you do with that GLOB? For inst

Re: getting file on STDIN, howto process GLOB

2002-10-16 Thread John W. Krahn
Zentara wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > I'm looking at a script that takes a file on STDIN. perldoc -q "How can I read in an entire file all at once" Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlfaq5.pod How can I read in an entire file all at once? > ### > #!/us

Re: getting file on STDIN, howto process GLOB

2002-10-17 Thread Robin Cragg
Hi, You should think of a glob as an alias. $input = *STDIN; $file = <$input>; print $file; All that does is alias $input to STDIN, and then read the contents of $input into $file. The main use of this is redirecting your output without having to write loads of extra code R At 13:19 16