SPUG: FILEHANDLE - What am I missing here.

[Brian Hatch]

> sub1 then I dutifully get the first 200 lines of the file, 100 each from
> sub2 and sub3. What am I missing here. Why does <FILE> seem to close (or
> go out of scope) after sub1. And is there a way to do what I am trying
> to do? 

looks like sub1 calls getline:

>   foreach(&getline){

and getline looks like this

> sub getline{<FILE>;}

Since getline returns an array (all the lines of FILE) to
your foreach loop, there's nothing left in FILE.  Here's
sub1:

> sub sub1{
>   foreach(&getline){
>     print;
>     print "SUB3";
>     return if(/sometext/);
>   }
> }

Even though you may return before processing all the lines
in the foreach, getline has already snagged all lines.  There's
nothing left in FILE by the time you call sub2, etc.

You should have getline return a scalar:

	sub getline { scalar <FILE> }

That way it gets a line, not all lines.


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