This is what I came up with. It does essentially the same as
your program, but it's a little bit shorter. Notice that I
dropped the
close altogether, because
open automatically
closes the file handle if it was previously opened (see
perlopentut
-- I wouldn't consider this a good programming
practice, but I'm assuming this is a one-shot program here),
so you don't have to keep track of whether file is open. Also,
you don't need to read the whole file in memory at once.
use strict;
my $n="0000";
while (<>) {
if (/^<\?xml version/) {
open OF, ">outfile_$n.xml" or die "open: $!\n";
$n++;
}
print OF $_;
}
--ZZamboni
