Re^2: Unsuccessful and Uninitialized Value

I'd be interested in hearing ideas on how that error message could be made clearer.

"...(maybe you forgot to chomp?)"

;-)

Update: Looking closer at the OP's code, chomp is not the problem of course. The problem is the use of $/ which ikegami has noticed further down. But I still like my (joking) error message addition, as it sounds similar to the non-existant package/method error :)

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Re^3: Unsuccessful and Uninitialized Value by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2006 at 17:13 UTC
I did use chomp, and it still didn't work.	[reply]
Re^4: Unsuccessful and Uninitialized Value by runrig (Abbot) on Jun 05, 2006 at 20:06 UTC
Do you know what setting `$/` does? If set to a reference to an integer, it reads in that many bytes (and in your case one or more of those bytes contains a newline). It does not merely set the "maximum" number of bytes read. Is that what you wanted (this would be appropriate for a fixed length format)? Or are you trying to read in the file one "line" at a time? What does one line of the file look like? Does one line contain one file name? Or more?	[reply] [d/l]