On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 05:48 , Peter Scott wrote:
> At 02:52 PM 5/20/02 -0700, drieux wrote:
[..]
>>                 open(FH, "$file"); # normally we want to die
>>                 print $_ while(<FH>);   # silly but a one liner
>>
[..]
> I missed the earlier articles in the thread so may be off base wrt 
> original question here, but the above is usually written as:
>
>         print while <>;
>

I thought that was a synonym for STDIN?

{ and for self documenting I would prefer it as
                print while <STDIN> ;}

or do you mean

        print while <FH> ;

rather than the longer bit that I wrote?


ciao
drieux

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