in reply to Default Line in Loops

# but have you tried this?
foreach (sort <FILE>) { print; }
while (sort <FILE>) { print; }

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RE: RE: Default Line in Loops
by japhy (Canon) on Jan 10, 2000 at 19:46 UTC
    Personally, I'd do:
      print while <FH>;

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    or even: print do { local($/), <FH> }; But think, for a moment, about: 
      while (sort <FH>) {
    print;
  }

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    You're now calling sort() in scalar context. It returns false, so that while() loop doesn't do jack. And I HIGHLY recommend against 
      for (<FH>) {
    print;
  }

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    Since that builds up a list of all the records in FH. -- japhy on EFnet, japh on DALnet, Jeff on Earth
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