in reply to Re: Socket gripes
in thread Socket gripes

Why would that read the whole file for $socket, when he's not changing the global $/ (input record separator)?

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Re: Re: Re: Socket gripes
by Thelonius (Priest) on Oct 28, 2002 at 14:47 UTC
    Because he is using < > (readline) in list context.
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