On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Andy Bach <afb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I used a temp var as you had ("$cookie"), but in this case, using the > default while usage assings directly to $_: > while ( <> ) { > if ( $_ eq 'cookie') { > "assigns directly to $_" > and that gets easier with regular expression matching: > > while ( my $cookie = <> ) { > chomp($cookie); > if ( /cookie/ ) { > > means "if $_ contains the word cookie" > Er, that was fubar - S/B: while ( <> ) { if ( /cookie/ ) { Good luck! -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk