Re^2: filehandle in warning not what I expected...

Thanks for the input - you're right, it's inefficient, I will follow Corian's advice and read the file into a hash.

But what really confused me is that the warning referenced the interface file and not the actual data file that the undef field was parsed from...

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Re^3: filehandle in warning not what I expected... by spstansbury (Monk) on Dec 27, 2010 at 21:57 UTC
Or it's simply showing the last filehandle that I read from...	[reply]
Re^4: filehandle in warning not what I expected... by JavaFan (Canon) on Dec 27, 2010 at 22:34 UTC
Right. Perl isn't tagging any values with the source it came from; let alone undefined values. In fact, if it came from a file, it has to be defined.	[reply]