Re: [MacPerl] File Handle Error in New MacPerl

[Richard Rathe <rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu>]

On 1/1/98 Brian L. Matthews wrote:

>Chris Nandor writes:
>|However, I do not think it is possible that this could happen as long as
>|your input record separator ($/) is not changed (because a newline will
>|always be in $line).
>
>Unless the last line in the file doesn't end in a newline. If the last
>two characters in the file are "\n0", while ($line = <IMAGES>) will skip
>the zero.

To summarize, if the last char is a 0 on a line by itself (however we
define a line) then $line = <F> will miss this single character, but
otherwise behave normally.

Correct?

Just out of curiosity, is that a printable zero or a NULL (ASCII 00) we're
talking about?

Thanks to all who replied. RR

PS: The LACK of a warning may have been a bug with an earlier version of
MacPerl. The only thing I changed was going from 5.1.3r2 to 5.1.6r4.

__________________________________________________________________________
  Richard Rathe, MD                       mailto:rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu
  University of Florida                      http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/
 



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