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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-08 18:28:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-08 18:28:13 +0000 |
| commit | 91e74348ab129f737e0d9da75481cd4eb7414ba4 (patch) | |
| tree | b700d3ed7ddb36fb2d15c007f31f5bd0346d8418 /lib/FileHandle.pm | |
| parent | 1426bbf4b7d39af0f80ec0afcb4869d2bc3f0a90 (diff) | |
| download | perl-91e74348ab129f737e0d9da75481cd4eb7414ba4.tar.gz | |
Do away with array context, from Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
(either perlbug or p5p ate the original), plus regen
perlapi and perltoc.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6553
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/FileHandle.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/FileHandle.pm | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/FileHandle.pm b/lib/FileHandle.pm index 34c3475d9c..5eb3a89adc 100644 --- a/lib/FileHandle.pm +++ b/lib/FileHandle.pm @@ -238,12 +238,12 @@ See L<perlfunc/printf>. =item $fh->getline This works like <$fh> described in L<perlop/"I/O Operators"> -except that it's more readable and can be safely called in an -array context but still returns just one line. +except that it's more readable and can be safely called in a +list context but still returns just one line. =item $fh->getlines -This works like <$fh> when called in an array context to +This works like <$fh> when called in a list context to read all the remaining lines in a file, except that it's more readable. It will also croak() if accidentally called in a scalar context. |