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on May 09, 2000 at 18:55 UTC ( [id://10792]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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foreach is cool, but without while you couldn't say while(<FILE>), which is cool, too...
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RE: RE: My favorite looping mechanism in Perl is: by BBQ (Curate) on May 10, 2000 at 16:14 UTC
AHA! But you CAN! One of my 1st posts (back in December) was exactly on this topic. The only reason why its not good to do a `foreach (<FILE>) { }` [download] is because the whole FH gets thrown into memory before the iterations (or so I've been told). But, yeah, practically it wouldn't be that good...	[reply] [d/l]

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