in reply to Re: Re^3: STDIN following on?
in thread STDIN following on?

You could try doing a close on STDIN, then re-opening it, but I have no idea if this'll work, or if it does, how well.

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Re: Re: Re: Re^3: STDIN following on?
by tfrayner (Curate) on Aug 10, 2001 at 23:47 UTC
    Thanks.
    Sadly I just tried this and it doesn't work. The uninitialized value message is still there. Interestingly the error message is slightly different when this approach is applied to Cheeselord's example (which describes the problem well, I think). If I don't close and reopen STDIN, the string '<STDIN> line 6' is appended to the error message. Line 6 is where the first read occurs (i.e. where cat file | eoftest.pl feeds in). I wonder if these pipes are dictated by the parent shell rather than perl itself?

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