I feel somewhat dumb asking this question. I've played around with this for a while, and read perldoc(s), but the answer is aluding me.

My snippet of code looks like:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $infile = shift;

open(INIFILE, "$inifile");

while (<INIFILE>) {
      (my $server, my $dir, my $type) = split if !/^#/;
      print "$server $dir $type\n";
}

close(INIFILE);

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and my data in INIFILE looks like:

# commments
# more comments
# yadda yadda

fooserver foodir footype
fooserver2 foodir2 footype2

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This works, except that I get several blank lines as output before the real data -- it must be parsing split for the lines starting with #. Why?

I tried print if !/^#/; instead and it worked as expected...

Thanks, --ibanix


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In reply to Context of "if" statements? by ibanix

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