Thanks Naryan. This is my old while/for dyslexia playing me up again :-/
I think you're wrong about the interpolation though. while () won't take a control variable and I doubt it will compile in this form. Cheers, Rob "Narayan Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I am very new to perl. > I dont think I get your question. > > How about using "foreach" instead of "while". > foreach ( @xx ) > { > ..... > } > > while $file ( @xx ) will actually be interpolated to, > $file("peter 141444 \noscar e324345 \nsimon j85547\n"); > which is as good as $file(0); and will never work. > > Narayan > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Schwedler Kofoed wrote: > > |Hi all, > | > |I would like to open a file with the content: > | > |peter 141444 > |oscar e324345 > |simon j85547 > | > |in a perl script - but instead of reading the file one line at a time I > |would like to suck the whole file into memory and processing each line from > |there. > | > |I have tried to: > | > |open FILE, "< tmp.txt"; > |@xx = <FILE>; > | while $file(@xx) { > |................ > |} > | > |but I cant get it to work - where did I go wrong ? > | > |Thanks! > | > |/Jakob > | > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
