Re: how to read from more than one files at a time

[Rob Dixon]

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> thanks John and Rob for the great enlightenment, they taught me a lot.
>
> I wonder why the following is wrong:
> while (($in1=<IN1>) && ($in2=<IN2>))
> {
> ..
> }

In the special case where <FH> returns a null string (when the last
record of a file is empty and has no terminating record separator)
that blank record will evaluate as 'false' and prematurely exit
the loop.

HTH,

Rob



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