On Apr 30, Harry Jackson said: >#!perl ># ># These are a must of course. >use strict; >use warnings; > ># Note I am trying to avoid flames ># by including all the usaul ># warnings stricts etc > ># >my $CurrentLine; > ># ># Please enter your own pathname ># >open (INFILE, "c:\\hello.txt") || die "Unable to open file $!"; > >while ( defined($CurrentLine = <INFILE>)) {
Are you aware that when you do: while ($CurrentLine = <INFILE>) { ... } Perl puts the defined() in for you? > print STDOUT "$CurrentLine"; "STDOUT" is unnecessary, as are the quotes. The while loop could have been: while (<INFILE>) { print } > }; > > close(INFILE); > >exit 0; The exit() is also unnecessary. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]