On Thursday 09 August 2001 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Syntax error at perl.txt line 8, near "$x".
> Execution of perl.txt aborted due to compilation errors."
>
> $x=getc(INFILE);
> while($x!=eof(INFILE){
You'e missing a closing paren here.
However, even when I fix that this doesn't seem to run. I have to admit,
I've never, ever used the getc() function. This is definitely not the
canonical way to read from a file.
I guess I'd do something like this:
while( <INFILE> ){
# process line here
}
But this gets the file a line at a time.
Do you really want to process the file a byte at a time? I'd be inclined to
read the whole file into a variable and process each character another way.
Of course, there are certainly reasons you might want to process the file a
byte at a time and getc() might be exactly what you need - I'm just not that
familiar with it.
See also seek() if you need byte at a time access.
Regards,
Troy
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