Re^4: Change the behavior of Perl's IRS

What advantage does all that complexity, and 3 lines of code (don't forget the use), have over these 3?

local $/ = "myrecordsep\n";
scalar <DATA>; ## Discard first separator
while (<DATA>) {
    ...
}
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Re^5: Change the behavior of Perl's IRS by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 16, 2007 at 02:31 UTC
Sounded to me that he wanted alternatives to what he already had.	[reply]