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That won't tell me if I had an error or if I reached EOF. I want to distinguish those two cases.
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Re^3: Best way to handle readline errors?
by lin0 (Curate) on Nov 11, 2006 at 03:06 UTC

    Update

    I just want to withdraw my answer to the question. I want to apologize to the OP for not answering the question and adding noise in the process. On my defense, I wanted to help but I guess I was too tired to think clearly

    All the best

    lin0

    Hi jrw,

    maybe you are interested in something like this piece of code I found and adapted from the perldoc for readline

    for (;;) {
        undef $!;
        unless (defined( $data = <$fh> )) {
            die $! if $!;
            last; # reached EOF
        }
        # do what you need to do with your data
        # like:
        # chomp($data);
        # ...       
}

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    I hope this helps

    lin0
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      Did you actually read what he posted?
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        Update

        Thanks to ikegami for the comment. I am not sure what I was thinking yesterday. Having read the original question today made me realize that I was answering something completely different

        yes. but I might have missed the whole point

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