Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:53:57AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> I didn't test with -pi.bak so I can't authoritatively say.  
> 
> The man page said that -i edited in-place all lines passed through the <>
> operator.  I would then surmise that if you don't use the <> operator, it's
> not done.  I just haven't tested the theory.  Your version as I recall it
> did not seem to actually -take- the input from STDIN or a file, although I
> could be misremembering (it's not in front of me).

I read it as "if you use -i, then your -e commands will be used as the
target of 

while (<>) {};"

IE: it automagically does all the context for you, like awk, and all
you have to do it write the body of the loop.  I'm gonna test it in
about 10 minutes, so I'll know.  The only thing that might be a problem
is that in -i mode, there may be no way to get the shifts *out* of the
loop, which would, I think, be fatal.

Cheers,
-- jra
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