Re: Reading X lines at a time

Jose Alves de Castro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I was thinking about something I could use "HERE":

while (HERE) {
  # do something with $_
}

So it would take a little twist, probably...

What about when you have $X - 1 lines to read? It works, right?


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:39, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:19:55PM +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> > How about
> > push @lines, scalar <FILEHANDLE>, 1..$X;
> 
> I presume you meant
> 
> push @lines, scalar <FILEHANDLE> for 1..$X;
> 
> > Technically however, you are still reading one byte at a time...
> 
> No you're not!
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José Alves de Castro <[email protected]>
Telbit - Tecnologias de Informação
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