Re: Strange File read problem

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•Re: Re: Strange File read problem by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 09, 2003 at 15:10 UTC
Not true. The filehandle read operation is in a list context. This slurps the entire file (delimited by `$/`) as a series of lines, returning one element per line. No need to change the delimiter here. That wasn't the problem. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: Re: Strange File read problem by nothingmuch (Priest) on Apr 09, 2003 at 15:10 UTC
wrong. the readline operator will return all the lines in list context. Setting $/ to undef will only make the whole file be treated as one line, so the file will be in one array element instead of being smeared across the array. -nuffin zz zZ Z Z #!perl	[reply]
Re: Re: Strange File read problem by abhishes (Friar) on Apr 09, 2003 at 15:19 UTC
I had tried the undef $/; approach before posting. It didn't work. I wrote the code like `undef $/; open FILE, shift; my @lines = <FILE>; close FILE; foreach my $str (@lines){print $str};` [download] But the output was just the same. To make the matters more funny for me, I created a file Sample2.java with the content `package my; import n.a.m.e; import i.s; import a.b.h.i.s.h.e.k; import s.r.i.v.a.s.t.a.v.a;` [download] It worked perfectly !! So what's wrong with the first file?? regards, Abhishek.	[reply] [d/l] [select]