Re: array question and ODBC note

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:14:50PM -0800, John wrote: > Recently someone pointed out that it's better to use: > > while( defined( my $line = )) > > than > > while( my $line = ) In more recent versions of Perl (5.00503 and above) there is no need to wrap a defined around this specific loopin

array question and ODBC note

2002-02-13 Thread John
Recently someone pointed out that it's better to use: while( defined( my $line = )) than while( my $line = ) so I have been moving towards this. I noticed that with arrays, such as: while( defined( my @data = $sth->fetchrow_array())) this does not work - @data is defined (as a zero item