In a message dated Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Luke Palmer writes:
> > before { ... } # run before first iteration, only if there is at
> > least one iteration
> > after { ... } # run after last iteration, only if there is at least
> > one iteration
> > noloop { ... } # run if there are no iterations
>
> I don't know. Seems like an awful lot of keywords to remember what a
> simple if should take care of.
I dunno... coming from a system administration background, the
header/record separator/footer thing is so common in sysadmin tasks that
some way to do it without an iterator and if/else would be really welcome.
> while print("Enter your input: "), $_=<> { }
>
> Is quite yucky. So a feature to handle this might be nice.
I think Damian already alluded to being able to say:
$fh is chomped is prompted("Enter your input: ");
Trey
