"Your technique of pushing things onto @ARGV is clever, and yet at the same time kind of disturbing."

Looks like the code i gave out at (jeffa) Re: Print contents of a range of text files to browser (was: text files). That is a trick i picked up from merlyn at •Re: Re: Listing Files.

"If this were production code, I'd suggest doing something a little more formalised."

Let's see what merlyn has to say about that: •Re: Re: •Re: Re: Listing Files. I'm with merlyn on this one.

UPDATE:
Although ... i really do believe that using @ARGV in this manner is what is causing the script to hang - if any of the the conditions that cause a die in the code above are met without that die - the code will hang. Maybe Anony should be a bit more careful and explicitly open the files like you suggest.

Myself, i will still use that technique anyway. You just have to know what you are doing. ;)

jeffa

Scissors are for running

In reply to (jeffa) 3Re: Text File Parsing / Homegrown Template by jeffa
in thread text file parsing by Anonymous Monk

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