so i guess my error was in thinking that would somehow skip the first line of the file being read in. now i need a different way to do that.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, MCNAMARA, KEN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:km1921@att.com" target="_blank">km1921@att.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The sub routine returns the ‘last evaluated expression’.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If you wrote (in the body of the subroutine):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">my $value;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">while(<FH>) { $value = $_; }<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">return $value;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Then you get the contents of the file as intended.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">my $next = <FH>; -- is meaningless since FH was already at end of file in “while(<FH>)”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">KenMc<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bradley Andersen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joe Kline<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:mark@purdue.edu" target="_blank">mark@purdue.edu</a>; Purdue Perl Mongers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Purdue-pm] help!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I have just confirmed using the latter (new) method that the first <FH> does not do what I had thought (skip first line of the file read).<br>
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So Joe's comment about trying to be too clever on that bit looks correct.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Bradley Andersen <<a href="mailto:bradley.d.andersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bradley.d.andersen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yeah, in the end I don't care if it is clever or not, so long as the code works and it is readable :)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Joe Kline <<a href="mailto:gizmo@purdue.edu" target="_blank">gizmo@purdue.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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On 05/16/2012 01:20 PM, Bradley Andersen wrote:<br>
> ok, i just fixed it, but i'd like to still figure out why it worked<br>
> then stopped. there must be something wrong with the earlier<br>
> logic. for reference, here's what i did:<br>
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> i replaced: 1999 #####open(FH,<br>
> "$base/helping$full.html") || die "\n\nCould not READ<br>
> $base/helping$full.html: [$!]\n\n"; 2000<br>
> #####$tpl->param("m$full" => do { local $/; while (<FH>) { my $next<br>
> = <FH>; } });<br>
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> with: 2001 2002 my $contents; 2003 { 2004<br>
> local $/; 2005 open(FH, "$base/helping$full.html")<br>
> || die "\n\nCould not READ $base/helping$full.html: [$!]\n\n"; 2006<br>
> $contents = <FH>; 2007 close(FH); 2008<br>
> } 2009 $tpl->param("m$full" => $contents);<br>
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> Can you see immediately why the first one would be no good? It<br>
> almost seems like the tpl->param is not being set as a string.<br>
> That is, clearly it reads it, but it is not assigning the result<br>
> properly as a string. All I got were undefs in the log for the<br>
> earlier logic. I am 199% sure this worked using the earlier logic<br>
> yesterday.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brad,<br>
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I don't see much of a reason why the file slurping wasn't<br>
working...maybe that bit to strip the first line out was a bit too much?<br>
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It took me a bit to figure out why that slurp line looked familiar but<br>
odd:<br>
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<a href="http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/08/a-one-line-slurp-in-perl-5.html" target="_blank">http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/08/a-one-line-slurp-in-perl-5.html</a><br>
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I guess just an example where the less clever option worked out better.<br>
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joe<br>
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