On Jan 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>That's right. But let me add my 5cents to it. If you decide to use the
>construct "while ( <MYFILE> )..." then it better be 
>while( defined(<MYFILE>) ) {
>//...
>}

Not so.  First, doing defined(<MYFILE>) does not store a line in $_ -- for
that, you'd need defined($_ = <MYFILE>).  Second, while
(<FH>) automatically becomes while (defined($_ = <FH>)).  See the perlsyn
documentation.

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