I've momentarily be jerked from my safe cocoon of 5.8 into the world of 5.10 (and 64 bit at that) and was dismayed to find that 
while(<>) {
    # do something with $_
}

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no longer seems to work. I don't mind changing to an explicit open, but I have to admit that I miss the 'nix filter of previous versions. What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE: Here is the detail that I should have supplied in the first place, sorry about that! It also contains the answer to the problem in that the failure is related to redirection...

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
(with 5 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall

Binary build 1004 [287188] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveSt
+ate.com
Built Sep  3 2008 12:22:07

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
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Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.


C:\>type test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

while (<>) {
    print $_;
}

C:\>test test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

while (<>) {
    print $_;
}

C:\>test < test.pl

C:\>

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--hsm

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

In reply to Out of date over <> and 5.10 by hsmyers

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