On Mon, 2006-05-06 at 10:20 +0800, joseph wrote:
> @line = () if /^DATE:/; ## set array @line to an empty list if line begin 
> DATE?

Yes, this will clear out the previous record.

>  push @line, $_; ## then push the value of line to an empty @line array?

@line is empty only if this is the first time thru the loop, or the
current line starts with 'DATE:'. Otherwise, it will have part of a
record in it.

> 
> Am i right?


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