On Sep 26, Jerry Preston said:

>Is there a better way?  A Perl way?
>
>  $j = 0;
>  while( <file> ) {
>    chomp;
>    ( $lots[ $j++ ] ) = $_;

That's usually written as

     push @lots, $_;

>  }

Well, you could do:

  chomp(@lines = <FILE>);

but why do you need the file in an array?

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