Hello, I posted last week a problem I had with <STDIN> related input. At a certain point in my script, after the script took the input, the cursor would go to the beginning of the current line. I had to use a combination of Return + ctrl+z keys before the script continued.

After much searching, I traced the problem to a section that looked like the following:

$myfile='path_to_my_file';
@myarray=`cat $myfile`;

If I change @myarray to something like @array=('one','two','three'); then the problem goes away. My $variable=<STDIN> operations function just fine.

I see now that I have to do an open(MYHANDLE, "myfile") approach instead, but I don't know why this is the case.

I'm using ActiveState v.5.6.1 and have Services for Unix 3.5 installed (for the cat function).

Can someone explain why (or point me to the appropriate perl faq discussion for this) the backtick-cat approach is wrong here?

Thanks much.

In reply to `cat $myfile`; vs. open(MYHANDLE, "myfile") by bw

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