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Foil 33 Basic Input (Chapter 6 of the Llama Book)

From PERL4 Tutorial for CPS616 Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 -- February 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 We have already seen how to read from standard input with
  • $line = <STDIN>; # returning next line INCLUDING terminal newline
  • @file = <STDIN>; # returning whole file with one line stored in each element of list @file
2 We can also easily access the arguments of a PERL program. Suppose you invoke a PERL program makePHD with
  • makePHD file1 file2 file3
3 Then we will see later how to access individual files file1, file2, file3 using standard argument conventions in UNIX
4 however the convention <> (Diamond Operator) will access the concatenation of the three files with all being read into array @argfiles with
  • @argfiles = <>;

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