Ashutosh Jog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This might be a very simple question, but being a newbie I
> have to ask. :)
>
> How can I copy the line by line contents of a file to a array?
>
> For eg: @animals should look like
> @animals = ('tiger','lion','elephant');
>
> And the text file would have entries for the same in this order
> (i.e. one after the other):
>
> tiger
> lion
> elephant
open ANIMALS, $filename or die "open: $filename: $!";
chomp( my @animals = <ANIMALS> );
But if, as often happens, you end up looping over the array
once and then ignoring it, consider this instead:
while (<ANIMALS>) {
chomp;
# something interesting
}
Which doesn't have to read the file into memory in order
to loop over each line.
--
Steve
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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