On Jul 27, Wagner-David said:
> ps I tried to remove the \n on STDIN and got an error:
>
>Can't modify <HANDLE> in chomp at d:\currwrka\00COMM~1\03AAPL~1\aapl210.pl
>line 2, near "<STDIN>)"
> and the code looked like:
>
>chomp(<STDIN>);
Reading from a filehandle never automatically assigns to a variable,
unless you're using the special while (<FH>) syntax (or you've munged with
the filehandle with a tie()).
Furthermore, chomp() MODIFIES its arguments. That's why you don't need to
say:
$foo = chomp $foo;
In fact, if you did, you'd be upset. ;)
So Perl is telling you, rather explicitly, that you're trying to modify a
constant string returned by the <FH> operator.
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