RE: Short silly question

2003-07-21 Thread Bob Showalter
Gabor Urban wrote: > Hi, > > > could someone give me a quick info whar __END__ and __DATA__ lines > are good for? They are used to tell Perl to stop compiling the script at that point, because whatever follows is either: a) data to be read in to the script using the special DATA filehandle (se

Re: Short silly question

2003-07-18 Thread Rob Dixon
Gabor Urban wrote: > Hi, > > > could someone give me a quick info whar __END__ and __DATA__ lines > are good for? > Short silly answer: __END__ing the program and starting the __DATA__ that you can read from the implicit filehandle. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For add

Short silly question

2003-07-18 Thread Gabor Urban
Hi, could someone give me a quick info whar __END__ and __DATA__ lines are good for? Gabaux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]