Re: Help me understand this code?

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Run it in the debugger. You can inspect the variables and see what it is doing. This loops over standard input:

for (<>) { ... }

See perlop to understand what the operators are doing.

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Re^2: Help me understand this code? by ansabhailte (Novice) on May 21, 2015 at 20:49 UTC
https://gist.github.com/coderd00d/a88d4d2da014203898af This is the input. How do I feed it into it? (I know this sounds really noobish but the debugger pops up DB1 etc and I'm not sure what it's looking for exactly).	[reply]
Re^3: Help me understand this code? by GotToBTru (Prior) on May 21, 2015 at 21:11 UTC
Perldoc is your friend. perlrun `$: perl -d prog.pl inputfile` [download] Dum Spiro Spero	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Help me understand this code? by ansabhailte (Novice) on May 21, 2015 at 21:31 UTC
Thanks. I was about to ask if I needed to curl to a pipe XD	[reply]

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