Re^3: Cleaner way of looping through a file and stripping only certain lines?

operator precedence in the open statement

Not trying to kick you while you're down (honestly! =]), and it could just be a case of me misreading your sentence, but the operator precedence ikegami explained is not limited to the open statement -- it's part of the perl parser in general.

Update: Ah, misread the original sentence indeed. Sorry 'bout that. No harm intended.

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Re^4: Cleaner way of looping through a file and stripping only certain lines? by texasperl (Sexton) on Dec 08, 2006 at 18:20 UTC
Ha! It was a case of misreading the sentence. All the same, thanks for the reminder. Now...the task of fixing my short-circuiting/error messages in other scripts awaits me. =]	[reply]
Re^5: Cleaner way of looping through a file and stripping only certain lines? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 08, 2006 at 19:10 UTC
Similarly, not using "" around the variables is not specific to `open`. `"$var"` creates a new variable which is the string representation of the specified variable. It's almost never needed, and it's often undesireable. In this case, your variable is already a string, and if it wasn't. If it wasn't, it would get converted to a string automatically. I can think of two uses for `"$var"`: When using a global variable as an argument. (For example, `log_error("$@")` is safer than `log_error($@)`.) When you want to explicitely specifiy the context for an overloaded object. (For example, `4 + $obj` and `4 + "$obj"` could have different results.) You'd only use this when you know you have an overloaded object and you know you want the string representation in a numerical, boolean or list context (i.e. never).	[reply] [d/l] [select]