Re: count moby substrings

Hi hally. I'm trying to work out why you used the do construct on line 27? Why is that needed as opposed to a bare block with no do? I understand that do can be used with while, or to overide the loop-like nature of bare blocks when used with next or last, neither of which is the case here.

Cheers!

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Re: Re: count moby substrings by halley (Prior) on Jul 30, 2003 at 11:46 UTC
Just a matter of style-- bare braces in the middle of nowhere make me itch, looking for an 'if' line that may have been deleted or obscured. Same reason I explicitly handle newlines and whitespace in two passes, though that's not really necessary. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
Re^3: count moby substrings by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 31, 2003 at 20:08 UTC
I prefer to write it this way: `my $input = do { local $/; <> };` [download] Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]