David Moron wrote:
> The consumer has only to read lines from its STDIN and print them to
> the STDOUT.
print while(<>);
>
> These scripts are a simplified version of the producer/consumer
> problem and they try to emulate a multithreaded perl program. IMHO
> It's not important what I want to do with consumer, the problem is
> that consumer cann't read lines from producer because producer never
> sends EOF.
Well of course it can read lines. It just can't read *all* the lines into an
array, because the only way for it to know it has read *all* the lines is to
receive an EOF.
>From perldoc perlop:
If a <FILEHANDLE> is used in a context that is looking for a list, a
list comprising all input lines is returned, one line per list
element.
It's easy to grow to a rather large data space this way, so use with
care.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
