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That would mean I have to read the whole file into memory, and return a list of chunks. Depending on the filesize this might turn out as a bad idea ;-)

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Re^3: sub that sets $_
by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Jun 28, 2005 at 13:23 UTC
    No - each iteration returns a chunk into $_ in the for or foreach loop.

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      definitly not. 
      use FTest;

my $test = new FTest ();

print foreach $test->foo;
print for     $test->foo;

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      Meanwhile in a module 
      package FTest;

sub new { return bless {}, shift; }
sub foo { return 1; }

1;

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      That code prints "11". I you were correct that would be an endless loop.
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        I have to pass there because I don't understand what this has to do with $_ being a default for/foreach parameter.

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