Hello Monks,

I am seeking wisdom because the script below, which is called from another perl script that runs on various linux consoles here is behaving srange. Sometimes it hangs and sometimes it does not.

I believe this script is hanging at the line 

push(@lines, $_) unless (/espf\[/);

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I believe this because in cases when it hangs, if I do a Cntl-C I get: 

Not a subroutine reference at ./file_delimiter.pl line 24, <> line3.

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This is turning out to be a disruptive problem here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl5 -w

use warnings;
use strict;

sub delimit {

my ($tos, $ccs, $rp, $sb, $body, $in_file) = @_;

if (defined $in_file) { # file submited

@ARGV = $in_file;

$body = ""; 

while(<>) {

push(@lines, $_) unless (/espf\[/);  # hangs here sometimes

} # end of while

} # end of if  

} # end of sub

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In reply to @ARGV while (<>) hangs by gatorreina

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