Re: Advantage of while(<>){while()}?

That would make the two roughly equivalent, right?

Again, it can result in drastically different matches. Consider a poor man's CSV parser, «$regex = qr/[^,]*/;». A file with lines foo,far and boo,bar has four fields (over two lines) using one and three fields using the other.

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Re^2: Advantage of while(<>){while()}? by Argel (Prior) on May 18, 2011 at 22:21 UTC
Even if I'm slurping the entire file in in both cases (local $/)? Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^3: Advantage of while(<>){while()}? by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2011 at 22:24 UTC
Oh, I didn't notice that you added `local $/;` to the first snippet too! `local $/; while (<>)` provides error checking (empty file, read error) that `local $/; $_ = <>;` doesn't.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Advantage of while(<>){while()}? by Argel (Prior) on May 18, 2011 at 22:32 UTC
My fault for leaving the $/ part out originally! Been looking at this code for too long. :( Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]