Monks,

I have a very silly and simple question, but i dont understand why it works like this.

First while loop working properly whereas the second is not, why?

undef $/;
open (FCMP, "anchor.txt") or die ("anchor.txt is not opened\n");
{
    local $/="\n";
    
    while(<FCMP>)
    {
        print "$_\n";
        chomp;
        @item = split(/\t/);
        $pii{$item[0]} = [$item[1], $item[2], $item[3]];

    }
}
{
local $/="\n";

while (<FCMP>)
{
my $an = $_;
print "$an\n";
}
}

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The second while statement is not printing anything. So i thought that only one time a file handle can be used directly <FCMP> without assigning to a variable. Is it so? If wrong where am i going wrong.

Regards,
Anniyan
(CREATED in HELL by DEVIL to s|EVILS|GOODS|g in WORLD)

In reply to File handle question by anniyan

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