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For those wondering:

Misunderstanding 1:

dense: Having relatively high density. Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

Misunderstanding 2:

That's why he didn't care about checking defined for the line, since undef is a way to indicate EOF for files.

But the special power of while(<>) is that he could call it on a file in @ARGV for testing those manual inputs

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

In reply to Re^6: $_ not set in while <> by LanX
in thread $_ not set in while <> by pidloop

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