[Courses] [Perl] Part 4: Simple File Access

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 22/04/05 14:41 +0100, Dan wrote:
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> The open statement takes two arguments. The first is a file handle,

Nit: The open function takes one, two or three arguments. See perldoc -f
open for the differences.

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> The "while" loop continues until "<MY_INPUT>" returns the undefined
> value, which is the signal that we've reached the end of the file.
> (Note: in Perl a "while" loop must be contained in braces, even if it
> only has one statement. The same is true with "if".)

Nit: while, for, foreach and if take a block as a parameter.
while (EXPR) { BLOCK }

{} are block delimiters.

Devdas Bhagat