Hi, just a quick thought.

I often end up processing files of arbitrary data in a variety of formats to extract some part or parts that is useful. Usually these snippets are just a little too long to write as one liners, but not long enough that I want them to live in their own file. Given that they are usually tailored to a specific file of data, (which i usually need to keep, perhaps for reprocessing) my preference is to actually turn these files into a little script by using the __DATA__ tag, as Im sure many of you out there do as well. eg 

#mindnumbingly simple example....
while (<DATA>) {
  my ($x,$y,$z)=split(/,/,4);
  #do something weird with $x,$y,$z
}
__DATA__
blah,blah,blah

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Now what I wish is that there was some switch like -n that worked the same way, but instead of pulling from STDIN (or filenames passed 1 at a time) it pulled from __DATA__

Sigh. Well, thats one item for my perl christmas wish list...

:-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to A little Christmas switch wish.. by demerphq

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