On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 04:24 , Peter Scott wrote:
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> This is somewhat religious, of course,
and the rest of software development is not a matter
of studying the medieval heresy trials and resolving
which side of satan your current project is on
> and I'm not invalidating your appr
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 06:16 , Tor Hildrum wrote:
> You can use the $ARGV[X] values directly like above, or you can put them
> in
> variables. I guess that's what drieux did. Everything passed from the
> command line are put into to the @ARGV array.
> So, when I write
> % ./argv.pl 2 3 ba
Drieux wrote:
> foreach my $file (@ARGV) { # for everything we see on the command line
> # let us assume it is a file for simplicity
> if ( -f $file ) {
> open(FH, "$file"); # normally we want to die
> print $_ while(); # silly but a one liner
> # could have been while() { print $_ ;}
> # but tha
> From: "Taylor Lewick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:00:45 -0500
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: avoid backticking if at all possible - Re: perl awk question
>
> Thanks drieux, I looked over the code you posted, most of it makes sense, but
> am still a little confused over
On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:43 , Peter Scott wrote:
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> At 10:25 PM 5/20/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
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>>> print while <>;
>>
>> I thought that was a synonym for STDIN?
>
> Only in certain cases. It iterates over @ARGV; it's special. Look under
> "I/O Operators" in perlop.
"Well
At 10:25 PM 5/20/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
>On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 05:48 , Peter Scott wrote:
>>At 02:52 PM 5/20/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
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>>> open(FH, "$file"); # normally we want to die
>>> print $_ while(); # silly but a one liner
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>>I missed the e
On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 05:48 , Peter Scott wrote:
> At 02:52 PM 5/20/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
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>> open(FH, "$file"); # normally we want to die
>> print $_ while(); # silly but a one liner
>>
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> I missed the earlier articles in the thread so may be off
At 02:52 PM 5/20/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
>What may help the process here is to think 'cat' but in 'perl'
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
>
> foreach my $file (@ARGV) { # for everything we see on the command
> line
>
