On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:14:51AM -0500, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> %>bar.pl | foo.pl
>
> But alas, foo.pl never seems to get the input sent from bar.pl. It does
> not seem to read from STDIN.
>
> What should I do to my first program (foo.pl) so it can accept command
> line input as well as input from STDIN?
Try using the magic filehandle. So in foo.pl :
while ( defined( $line = <> ) ) {
...
}
The magic filehandle will read stuff from @ARGV and will also read from
STDIN.
//Ed
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