[OT] Perl Question

[Dan Nguyen]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 07:53:34PM -0500, Benjamin Minshall wrote:
> Greetings:
> While Not EOF
> {
>      get line from text file;          # Syntax in Perl?
>     do HTML FUBARing on text line
>      output HTML_STUFF
> }
> 
> My question is: How can I read lines like this in Perl?  I've got
> everything else
> covered.  Thanks.

open FILE, "foobar" or die "$!";

while (<FILE>) {
  print '$_ will contain your line: ', $_;
}

or if you don't like having it in $_,

while (defined($variable = <FILE>)) {
  print '$variable will contain our line: ', $variable;
}


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