On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:03:14PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> perl -ne '<>;print' filename
>> perl -ne 'print;<>' filename
>> Hmm... just tested those last 2 and they both print only the odds, what's
> going on there?
In both of the above examples, the code which is executed prints $_ (print)
and reads one more line from the input source (<>) - it doesn't matter which
order they're done in - the net result is to print the odd line, and slurp
in the even. You may be assuming that <> in scalar context is equivalent to
$_ = <> but t'ain't so. To print the even lines, you could use
perl -ne 'print $a = <>' filename
> I don't think this'll be beat
>> perl -pe '<>' filename
No, I don't suppose it will :-) and it certainly won't be beat for obscurity.
Regards,
Niall
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