SPUG: Some changes I'd like in Perl

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On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:46:08AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
....
> 
> You can actually do this.  Try:
> perl -wlne'$_ ne "" or next; print } continue { print "Finished with line $." '
> 
> That is, you have to say -e'foo } continue { bar' where foo is the body of the
> loop and bar is the contents of the continue block.

|Right, but at that point it would be simpler to dispense with the -n
|altogether and just write your own loop, to keep from going crazy!

|I admire your ingenuity for sneaking a continue block into the implicit
|-n loop, but I'd like a more conventional way to accomplish this goal,

Actually, I seem to recall Abigail (a wonderfully deranged hacker)
came up with this first.

|that would work with -p also.

Just to prove you can, here's a doodle to plumb the depths of silliness :) 

perl -wlpe '$_ ne "" or next } continue { print;print "Finished with line $.";
exit if eof}{'


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Charles DeRykus






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