Dear Monks:

This seems so simple, yet I've not found a clue in the O'Reilly book nor an extensive library of scripts at my disposal:

I need to process either a stream of millions of data points or a single atom with the same script:

> cat stream | foo

> foo bar (where bar is a single element form the stream)

I'm using the following convenient method to processing a stream from STDIN:

while (<>){
process stuff---
}
I tried this hack:

if ($ARGV[0]) {$inline = $ARGV[0]}

do{
process stuff--
}while ($inline = <>);

Course, now perl thinks $ARGV[0] is a file for input, and if I delete @ARGV, perl now waits patiently on STDIN.

I need to be able to disable STDIN when an invocation argument is suppplied. Is that possible?

thanks!

In reply to Stream and Atom flexibility by seedstitch

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.