On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:46:10PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > "<>" (wihtout a filehandle) seems > rarely used in Perl practice, though, *except* in support of > > your_shell_prompt> some_perl_script < some_file > > That is, "<>" is usually used simply as an abbrevision for <STDIN>, and I > bet *most* Perl programmers don't even know "<>" is more general than that. Well, I can't say anything about *most* Perl programmers, but all Perl programmers I know (including me) know damned well what <> does, and use it frequently. And in all the ways: no arguments meaning <STDIN>, a list of files meaning open those files one at a time, using - to include stdin in that list, accessing the filename and linenumber, etc. None of them can be called newbies, though. But then, I like using Python's fileinput, too, so maybe I'm just weird :) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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