Nice. You can prevent it from dealing with partial records at the end of the input too...

while ( 4 == scalar grep {$_ = <FH>; chomp} my($name,$address,$phone,$
+fax) ) {
    # Do stuff
}

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Update: See Aristotle's comments below. This will fail to process a four line record if the last record is missing an EOL. Also, using an explicit scalar is superfluous... and if you are already torturing your maintenance programmer with this construct, why be explicit? :-)

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: Re: Read File In Four-Line Chunks / TMTOWTDI / Golf by sauoq
in thread Read File In Four-Line Chunks / TMTOWTDI / Golf by Cody Pendant

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