SPUG: flip-flops

[David Dyck]

On 10 Feb 2002 at 14:47 -0500, Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf at att.net>...:

> Note that dollar ($) means ...
>  ... "last line" in the flip-flop.
>
>     $body   .= $_ if /^$/ .. $;

I don't think this does what you want

$ perl -wnle 'print "x$_" if 2 .. $;'
1
2
x2
3
4

as you can see.  I think it is parsed
as the variable "$;", so it is true
all the time, an you only get ..
to be true once, as it goes false
the next time.

perldoc perlvar

       $;      The subscript separator for multidimensional array
               emulation.




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