From: "Mumia W." <paduille.4060.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <RmWOh.17939$tD2.13587@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:40:01 GMT

On 03/29/2007 02:02 PM, John W. Krahn wrote:
> 
> It is the other way around.  "while (<$fh>) {" read a line and stores it in $_
> so it is still around, while "if (<$fh> =~ m/$item/) {" reads another line and
> binds it to the regular expression and then discards it.
> 
> [...]

Oops, you're right. The "while (<$fh>)" magic confused me.