I inherited a program that I'm converting from Tk to CGI (orders is orders). The original author has no clue what he did, as it was 4+ years ago and he's managed several projects since then. (And, no, there's no commenting or documentation.) Basically, it takes a set of datafiles, munges them, then displays them in some fashion.

During the data-munging part, I found the following line of code:

next LINE while (($line =~ /abcd/o) .. ($line =~ /def/0)); I'm a little confused as to what it does. As far as I know, those conditions never arise, as they're checked for above. But, what would this do?? (And, yes, it compiles and runs just fine.)

In reply to This code is just freaky... by dragonchild

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