Re: Reading multiple lines?

[chromatic]

We need more special variables here, especially $.:

local $.;        # make sure you're in a restrictive block
while ($. < 10) {
    push @lines, scalar <IN>;
    last if eof(IN);
}

I tested this on a file of 11 lines and one of 9. Worked both ways. If you don't care about uninitialized value errors, you can leave out the local.

[repson]

Unless I'm missing something this code would only get the first block of 10 lines then would stop. Maybe this would be better:

local $.;
while (<IN>) {
  push @lines , scalar <IN>;
  next if (($.%10 == 0) and (!eof(IN)));
  # process @lines
  @lines = ();  # clear
}