On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:56:10PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > > > not within any old conditional statement, only as the sole contents of a > > > *while* condition. > > > > Or the conditional in a C-style for loop, I believe. > > Indeed. > So, indeed, I hope that the third time is the charm...
--- ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm.old Sun Apr 4 08:32:35 2004 +++ ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm Wed Jun 29 21:46:44 2005 @@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ This works like <$io> described in L<perlop/"I/O Operators"> except that it's more readable and can be safely called in a -list context but still returns just one line. +list context but still returns just one line. If used as the conditional +within a C<while> or C-style C<for> loop, however, you will need to +emulate the functionality of <$io> with C<defined($_ = $io->getline)>. =item $io->getlines Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
