SPUG: Dup'ing STDIN from DATA?

[Tim Maher/CONSULTIX]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:43:54AM -0800, Tim Maher/CONSULTIX wrote:
> SPUGsters,
> 
> I'm writing a little program that will eventually read input from
> SDTIN, but initially I want to test it using the DATA filehandle.
> I thought the following would work, but it doesn't; it just reads from
> STDIN.  Anybody know the way to accomplish this?
> 
> #! /usr/bin/perl -wn
> 
> BEGIN {
> 	open STDIN, "<&DATA";	# comment-out after testing
> }
> 
> s/^(.*?:)//;
> defined $1  and  print "Extracted $1\n";
> 
> __DATA__
> Data: right here

For those put off by the AWKisness (-n usage) of the above program,
the following one doesn't work any better:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

open STDIN, "<&DATA";

while (<>) {	# no arguments provided to script
	<do fun stuff with $_>
}

__DATA__
Stuff here

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