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in thread How do I backtrack while reading a file line-by-line?

Thanks.

I didn't know about the & form being deprecated, so i will get rid of that.

And &play_with($stuff) does indeed modify $stuff, so I guess I am doing the right thing there, although I can't take credit for doing it on purpose. ;)

Thanks for the info though.
Matt

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by mdunnbass (Monk) on Oct 18, 2006 at 20:24 UTC
    Oh, heck.

    When I wrote the code block in the original post, the 

    if($newline = /^>/) {

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    was NOT deliberate. just a typo. In my actual code, it reads: 
    if($newline =~ /^>/) {

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