On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:25:15PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Michael Fowler wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:14:00PM +0100, Egor Brandt wrote:
> > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > > while ( < i am fred flintstone >) {
> >
> > The text between the angle brackets is not what you're matching against;
> > it's either a filehandle that you're reading from, or a globbing pattern to
> > match files against in the current directory. Not having Learning Perl on
> > hand I couldn't tell you which, but I'm guessing it's a filehandle to read
> > from.
>
> Actually it is using globbing to do what you would normaly do with
> split().
I was referring to what the original text is trying to do, not what his
variation parses into. Are you saying Learning Perl is using the glob
operator to get a string to iterate over? I wouldn't think that was the
case.
Michael
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