SPUG: itm 60 in effective perl programming
John W. Krahn
krahnj at telus.net
Thu Feb 24 01:38:05 PST 2005
Florentin Ionescu wrote:
> perl -pe 's/\n/" " . <>/e' file
> is presented in Effective perl programming as program to join lines from
> a file.
> what does it mean <> in this context ? - I looked into perlop and perlre
> but can't figure out haw it works.
<> is the readline operator.
perldoc -f readline
In this context (scalar) it means to read a single line from the current
filehandle (either ARGV or STDIN).
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