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in thread Search, Match, Compare, and Report

while (<...>)

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is short for 
while (defined($_ = <...>))

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local *_; prevents the clobbering of the parent's $_. my $_; would also do the trick in Perl 5.10+

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Re^4: Search, Match, Compare, and Report
by ahmad (Hermit) on Feb 01, 2010 at 12:29 UTC

    Thanks for clarifying

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