[sf-perl] Hanging with the diamond operator?

[Richard Reina]

This is the error I get with perl 5.6.0.

On 1/8/08, Quinn Weaver <quinn at fairpath.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:58:21PM -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
> > The script below is called from another perl script that runs on linux
> > console on a few machines here.  The problem is that sometimes the
> > script hangs.
> >
> > I believe this script is hanging at the line push(@lines, $_) unless
> (/espf\[/);
> >
>
> Could this be a problem with the low-level activity of reading the file?
> Are you reading this file off of a network file system of some sort?
> <> will hang until it reaches a newline or EOF.
>
> > I believe this because in cases when it hangs, if I do a Cntl-C I get:
> >
> > Not a subroutine reference at ./file_delimiter.pl line 24, <> line3.
>
> I'm not sure where this is coming from.  At first I thought perhaps you
> had done something like
>
>     $SIG{INT} = \&no_such_sub;
>
> but on my Perl (v5.8.8) that gives a different error:
>
>     SIGINT handler "no_such_sub" not defined.
>
> That said, I wouldn't worry about it too much.  I think it's an artifact
> of your doing Ctrl-C, not a problem you'll encounter in Real Life.
>
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