RE: help in while loop

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas Bätzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: > I have certain doubts. > > What's the meaning of " if > mysubroutine was defined with prototypes and you were trying > to disable that" sentence. > > Could you please elaborate that what's the meaning of this??? When declaring a subroutine, you can optionally also d

Re: help in while loop

2008-03-17 Thread telemachus07
On Mar 17, 7:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Irfan Sayed) wrote: > Hi All, > > Can somebody please let me know the meaning of this line. > > while (<$in>) > > { > > if(/,/) {print "before match: $`\t and after match: $'\n\n";}; $x=$'; > $y=$`; &mysubroutine($x,$y); > > } > > I know it is a while loop for

Re: help in while loop

2008-03-17 Thread Telemachus
On Mar 17, 7:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Irfan Sayed) wrote: > Hi All, > > Can somebody please let me know the meaning of this line. > > while (<$in>) > > { > > if(/,/) {print "before match: $`\t and after match: $'\n\n";}; $x=$'; > $y=$`; &mysubroutine($x,$y); > > } > > I know it is a while loop for

RE: help in while loop

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas Bätzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked > Can somebody please let me know the meaning of this line. > > > > while (<$in>) > > { > if(/,/) {print "before match: $`\t and after match: > $'\n\n";}; $x=$'; $y=$`; &mysubroutine($x,$y); > } The loop iterates over a filehandle, setting $_ to each line in turn. If