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in thread how to match and assign?

/me assumes that $/=undef is being applied, to allow all the file to be sucked into the variable $var.
/me also assumes that $var is subsequently being reused to store the matching criteria?

Or am I being dumb?

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Re: Re: Re: how to match and assign?
by davorg (Chancellor) on Apr 24, 2001 at 15:11 UTC
    /me assumes that $/=undef is being applied, to allow all the file to be sucked into the variable $var.

    Er... no. The original poster mentioned line at a time processing. Assume the following code around my previous snippet:

    while (defined($var = <FILE>)) {
  # code here
}

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    /me also assumes that $var is subsequently being reused to store the matching criteria?

    Wasn't very clear exactly what the original poster wanted to do with the results, so I left it deliberately vague :)

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