perhaps:
$word=<FILEHANDLE>;
instead of the other way around.
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 01:26 PM, Allison Ogle wrote:
>
> I will actually be storing the filehandle as a variable and then comparing
> it. Something like
>
> <FILEHANDLE>= $word;
> chomp $word;
> if ($word eq 'blank line') {
> ... }
> how would I use your suggestion in this case?
>
> if ($word=~ /^\s*$/)
>
> doesn't seem to work.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:53 PM
> To: 'Timothy Johnson'; 'Michael Stearman'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Filehandle = blank line???
>
>
> he might have chomp it...
> safer would be:
> if($_ =~ /^\s*$/){
> }
>
> shorter would be:
> if(/^\s*$/){
> }
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:42 PM
>> To: 'Michael Stearman'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: Filehandle = blank line???
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe if($_ =~ /^\s+$/){
>> do something...
>> }
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Stearman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:46 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Filehandle = blank line???
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am stepping through an input file using the filehandle and
>> I need to do an
>>
>> if statement which recognizes whether the filehandle is a
>> blank line. In
>> other words, what I want to do is
>>
>> if ($_ eq 'blank line') {
>> ... }
>>
>> And I was wondering what I use to represent blank line.
>> Thanks for the
>> help...being so new to Perl this list has helped me a lot and
>> I am extremely
>>
>> grateful. Thanks again,
>>
>> Mike.
>>
>>
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