: _Programming perl, third
ed_, pg 666 (so I guess its sort of black magic). The above bit also
shows that $. does work in this mode.
--Will
Carl Jolley wrote on Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: pack
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Will W wrote:
Sisyphus wrote on Wednesday, February 20
- Original Message -
From: Will W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Everyone's fascination with sysread() got me to poking around in the
camel and cookbook a bit-- and I still can't see the advantage here of
doing a low-level system call over using read(), which is generally
buffered for optimal
Sisyphus wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Will W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Everyone's fascination with sysread() got me to poking around in the
camel and cookbook a bit-- and I still can't see the advantage here of
doing a low-level system call over using read(), which is generally
buffered
Hah! I know what the problem is!
ASCII character 10 happens to be either \n -- so when you print this number to
the file, you get a newline character for one of the bytes, so your
while(READ) loop finds three lines in the file instead of two.
I think that in order to read this number back out
-Original Message-
Behalf Of Morse, Richard E.
Hah! I know what the problem is!
ASCII character 10 happens to be either \n -- so when you print
this number to
the file, you get a newline character for one of the bytes, so your
while(READ) loop finds three lines in the file
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:11:01 +1100
Sisyphus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Ok - so I'm running the code below and it's working as I want - unless
either of the 2 values being written to the file is 10. (ie unless $num = 8
or 10).
If the value is 10, then I get a couple of warnings about
