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in reply to Why is file being slurped in instead of line by line?

Hello ,

To make your code works fine ,

1. remove "undef $/;" line ... which makes the whloe data as one line ( removes line sperator )

2. remove "my @data;" from the top ... and declare it inside the loop ... which means ... it re-assigned a new data for each loop like

my @data = split (/\t/, $line);

HTH

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Re^2: Why is file being slurped in instead of line by line?
by zshzn (Hermit) on Aug 26, 2006 at 21:46 UTC
    Point #2 is not necessary to his issue, nor will it actually fix a problem in his code execution. That already "works fine", if not optimally.

      ahmad's point is however a good one. It is generally good practice to limit the scope of variables as far as is reasonable. It reduces the chance that a variable will be inadvertantly modified and the purpose of the variable is generally clearer.


      DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
        I agree. However, he explained it as "To make your code works fine", and my issue was that the relevence could be misunderstood, being that the second point isn't going to make the code work any finer than it already did, or at least not in the way that the first point does. If that makes sense, that is.