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From: "Casey West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Yacketta, Ronald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Beginners (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> open FILE, "filename" or die $!;
> my $line = <FILE>;
> close FILE;
>
> Remember, <FILEHANDLE> is something you can iterate over. In scalar
> context it returns just one line (for all intents and purposes) at a
> time.
Am I right to say that although $line reads the first line, the whole file
is still being read till the end of file.
If I am sitting for a test, I failed because I would probably think that
$line = <FILE> would read the last line, I say so because of the following
reasons:-
my @line =<FILEHANDLE>; reads every line into @line, therefore I see the
'read FILEHANDLE' just like an array of lines like this :-
<FILEHANDLE> equivalent to ('line 1\n' , 'line2\n' ..... and so on.. ) and
if this is so, therefore $line should read the last line like this example
:-
my $line = ( 'line1', 'line2' , 'line3' );
print $line; # print line3
Thanks.
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