"last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread David Freeman
in my script i have the line currently reading last unless $email; i changed it to read last until eof unless $email; i get a error message for "eof unless" for a syntax error. Is there a proper way to phrase this type of arguement so it would work? David M.R. Freeman webmaster sysadmin f

Re: "last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello, What does "last until eof unless email" mean? I don't get what you're after. Can you explain what you're trying to do or include a snippet from your program. Aziz,,, In article <5.0.0.25.0.20010726113250.00a199b0@linus>, "David Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in my script i have

Re: "last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread David Freeman
well, i'm strictly speaking from a grammatical point of view, but it would seem to me that a last until eof unless $email; would be a valid syntax to go through to the end of the file unless $email was found. i'm not sure that this is what i want to do, but i thought i would see what would

RE: "last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "last until eof unless" question Hello, What does "last until eof unless email" mean? I don't get what you're after. Can you explain what you're trying to do o

Re: "last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:35:14AM -0700, David Freeman wrote: > last until eof unless $email; You can't chain trailing modifiers like that. It also doesn't make much sense: you can't last until eof, because you can only last once; you're not reading from the file, so you'll never reach eof. Ig

Re: "last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread Paul
--- David Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while(1){ > last until eof unless $email; Okay, this is a seriously wierd constructm lol... =o) First of all "last until" is a logical oxymoron. "last" breaks out of a loop, "until" makes one. It's a statement that *could* only execute once at

RE: "last until eof unless" question

2001-07-26 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: David Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: "last until eof unless" question > > > > > well, i'm strictly speaking from a grammatical