I played around with this some, and noticed that if you're reading a file off of the command line already (at least in the situations I could test) it doesn't work. Which, in my view, it should, owing to local and all. Specifically, it keeps right on reading off of the file specified on the command line, try as I might (by localizing @ARGV and $ARGV and even *ARGV, which was probably a bad idea) to dissuade it.

Can any kind, wise, helpful monks explain why and when this will and won't work? It's a neat trick in any case, but if it could be worked as a general file-slurper without the baggage, it'd be even cooler.


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In reply to Re: (ar0n) Re: Filehandles and Arrays by ChemBoy
in thread Filehandles and Arrays by bitswitch

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