Re: iinfinite loop

[Brent Michalski]

OOps, hit send too soon...

This is _not_ the same as reading from a filehandle!

while (<FH>)  is NOT the same as while($variable)  {unless $variable is a
filehandle}

If working with a filehandle, the while will loop until no data is left.
With a string, it will just keep looping while true (data in string)..

Brent




                                                                                       
       
                    David Gilden                                                       
       
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The following seems to never break out of the loop,
any comments?
Thanks

Dave

#!/usr/bin/perl -w


$data = 'some
multi line
string';


    while($data){

       push(@everyline, $_);

    }