Just to clarify:

wishing to deal with various use modes in a perfectly similar manner, I wanted to have 3 distinct modes of calling the program behaving absolutely similar, with minimum fuss about that in the code:

$ test.pl sample.txt sample1.txt ... sampleN.txt
$ test.pl <sample.txt
$ cat sample.txt sample1.txt ... sampleN.txt | test.pl

All is well with this with the use of <>, except the fact that once EOF is seen, no further attempt to read from <> is allowed - or STDIN is opened, and will wait forever if you're unaware of it...

Thanks you helping to sort this out.

UPDATE As perlop says in 'I/O Operators':

The <> symbol will return "undef" for end-of-file only once. If you call it again after this, it will assume you are processing another @ARGV list, and if you haven't set @ARGV, will read input from STDIN.

Now I know :)

In reply to Re^4: <> oddity ? by Krambambuli
in thread <> oddity ? by Krambambuli

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