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Well, that worked very well, unfortunately, it created another problem, the $TheRec = $_; is now empty. Therefore, the entire table, while populated with 1374 lines, is empty. What's the best way to go about this? Thanks again for you help--I was going nowhere quick :)
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Re: Re: Re: while(INFILE) terminating before finishing file.
by jwest (Friar) on Aug 23, 2001 at 23:12 UTC
    Well, unless you're sure that $TheRec is left empty, in which case we should start there, I'd look at your other while() loops. For example, the next one: while ($NewItem[$z]) { ... } will fail similarly to your old while (<IN>) loop. To rectify this one, for instance, you might need to switch to something more like while(defined($NewItem[$z])) or somesuch.

    Although there's nothing really wrong with the way you expressed this, by the way, it is more idiomatic to write the loop like this:

    # Itterate over the contents of the @NewItem list # For each item in the list, set $item to the value # (equivalent to $NewItem[$z] in your code) foreach my $item (@NewItem) { # And add this value in like you did before. $SQLString = $SQLString . $item . "\',\'"; }

    And even that's a little more loose that it could be.

    At any rate, go back and refactor your code, looking for more places to stick watch for the defined-but-false condition. And be sure that $TheRec is actually coming back blank.

    Hope this helps!
    --jwest

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