(Re:)**4 Can this If/Else be condensed into a 1 liner with a trailing If?

Actually, whithin a while (<STDIN>) {...}, the $_ contains the trailing \n. So even though a line might contain a lone zero, it will indeed be "0\n", which is definitely true.

--bwana147

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Re: (Re:)**4 Can this If/Else be condensed into a 1 liner with a trailing If? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 02, 2001 at 21:28 UTC
But a textfile could be malformed and missing the \n at the end of the last line (most Windows text editors forget to put a \n at the end of the last line) thus $_ could contain "0"	[reply]
Re: Re: (Re:)**4 Can this If/Else be condensed into a 1 liner with a trailing If? by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 02, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
The question wasn't "can <STDIN> return FALSE" but rather "isn't there some magic built into `while(<STDIN>)` that makes it test for definedness instead of truthfullness?" -Blake	[reply] [d/l]