RE: Head and Tail

Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:15:49 -0700 

 
> --- "Kipp, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why 'scalar <HEAD>' ??
> 
> If I may? =o)

of couse :-)

> 
>    push @head, <HEAD>;
>  
> would put the filehandle access into a list context, and would try to
> append the entire file to @head.

ahhh..OK. 

> 
>   scalar <HEAD>
> 
> puts the filehandle access into a scalar context so that it will only
> return one record each time. =o)

without slurping the whole file !! , great thanks

JIm

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