In the debugger
DB<33> l 72-76
72
73: $failures = $oldfails = 0 ;
74
75: while( <> ) {
76: &assert ( (substr($_,0,4) eq "573\r") , "EC 573 is mis
+sing 573^M at start--" ) ;
DB<34> c 75
main::unroll_and_parse_ec573(/opt/PRD/default/bin/ec2gen:75):
75: while( <> ) {
DB<35> x <>
empty array
DB<36> n
main::unroll_and_parse_ec573(/opt/PRD/default/bin/ec2gen:76):
76: &assert ( (substr($_,0,4) eq "573\r") , "EC 573 is mis
+sing 573^M at start--" ) ;
I've restarted the process and continued directly to line 75 - the 'while' loop
I've then dumped out the content of the STDIN file handle - it's empty.
Then 'next' and I'm in the loop - why!