"Mr. Shawn H. Corey" schreef: > The expression 'while(<>)' is in scalar context. > It reads the file one line at a time.
Rather one piece (or record) at a time, which by default is a line. The value of "$/" is the record separator; see `perldoc perlvar` for more information, such as special values like undef and '' and \<number>. Also see "$.". -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>