Mike wrote:
> 
> What happens if I call a perl script as follows:
> 
> test.pl < abc

The contents of the file "abc" are directed to the standard input of
"test.pl"


> What picks up the abc inside the script?  In shell scripting I would just
> use a read statement (read a).  Is there a like function in perl?

# reads from standard input, stores the current line in $_
while ( <STDIN> ) {

# use the <> special null file handle to read from standard input
while ( <> ) {


John
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use Perl;
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fulfillment

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