Re: Sort of Conceptual, Syntax, and modules related questions + Follow Up

2002-03-25 Thread Connie Chan
Dear all, Thank you very much you guys who giving me so detailed ans. (@v@) /" That's very very much helpful ^_^ And sorry for posted to the cgi groups as my careless. ~.~ Anyway, I am trying to follow up on some question and plus some more. 3. Is this different for this 2 scripts ? ( Modified

Re: Sort of Conceptual, Syntax, and modules related questions

2002-03-23 Thread Dave Storrs
Hi Connie, > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:30:25AM +0800, Connie Chan wrote: > > 1. When I open a text file with *lines, however, I just want to read the > > first line, would this be a good idea ? open (FILE, "textfile.txt"); > > $firstline = ; close (FILE); would this process run till EOF, or > >

Re: Sort of Conceptual, Syntax, and modules related questions

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Fowler
I've removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the Cc: list. I don't see how any of this directly relates to CGI. Please avoid cross-posting unless relevant and absolutely necessary. On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:30:25AM +0800, Connie Chan wrote: > 1. When I open a text file with *lines, however, I just wan

RE: Sort of Conceptual, Syntax, and modules related questions

2002-03-22 Thread Timothy Johnson
Oops! The exclamation point in number 7 was a typo. -Original Message- From: Timothy Johnson To: 'Connie Chan '; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3/22/02 1:59 PM Subject: RE: Sort of Conceptual, Syntax, and modules related questions 1. It will only read the

RE: Sort of Conceptual, Syntax, and modules related questions

2002-03-22 Thread Timothy Johnson
1. It will only read the first line. The time you want to be careful with <> is when you are assigning it to a list. For example, @myarray = ; will assign the entire contents of the file, while $myscalar = ; will assign only the first line. 2. In Windows, the endline character is interpreted