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Re: [MacPerl] <> warning
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:20:45 -0400, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>Suppose you have a
>file with a single 0 on a line by itself (I'm not sure whether a
>trailing \n "fixes" the problem or not).=20
Yes it will. "0\n" is not false. "0" is.
"" and "0" are the only strings that are considered as false. So ONLY if
a text file ends in "\n0", or if the file contains nothing but one
single "0", you can read in a "false" string before the end of the file.
=09Bart.
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