On Thursday 18 April 2002 1:52 pm, Felix Geerinckx wrote: > on Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:26:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary > > Stainburn) wrote: > > [..] > > while this one, using $_ instead of $line fails stating once per line > > before the break that I'm using an uninitialised variable on the > > 'while' line > > > > __BEGIN__ > > print while (shift @HTML)!~/^<!--break/; # copy until break > > Your assume that '$_' is assigned to the shifted '@HTML' array-element > here, but it isn't. You should use > > print while ($_ = shift @HTML) !~ etc... > > You get the uninitialized value warning because you use 'print' without > parameters, so it defaults to '$_' which isn't initialized yet.
Thanks for that Felix. While your answer makes sense, why doesn't shift use the $_ as I obviously expected? -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
