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| author | Casey West <casey@geeknest.com> | 2003-04-25 06:46:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-04-26 22:48:32 +0000 |
| commit | 00cb5da129a8590d61ea16748bc9227b1757d0bf (patch) | |
| tree | 3d5086cae2504f79a40b0b362c7248e4a5d3cdee /pod/perlsyn.pod | |
| parent | 3272a53d8ac41fb10d7f6637e3ffc4d16e9eb861 (diff) | |
| download | perl-00cb5da129a8590d61ea16748bc9227b1757d0bf.tar.gz | |
Some doc patches by Casey West :
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #21260] adding error handling info to perlfunc/readline
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:46:39 -0400
Message-ID: <20030425144639.GY34510@geeknest.com>
Subject: Re: [perl #21785] [PATCH] clarify readdir in for conditional
From: Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:52:13 -0400
Message-ID: <20030425115213.GP34510@geeknest.com>
Subject: Re: [perl #7213] [PATCH] Updating example in perldata
From: Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:27:22 -0400
Message-ID: <20030425012722.GN34510@geeknest.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19344
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diff --git a/pod/perlsyn.pod b/pod/perlsyn.pod index 16bca2d6b5..1b5a6a940e 100644 --- a/pod/perlsyn.pod +++ b/pod/perlsyn.pod @@ -315,6 +315,14 @@ hang. # do something } +Using C<readline> (or the operator form, C<< <EXPR> >>) as the +conditional of a C<for> loop is shorthand for the following. This +behaviour is the same as a C<while> loop conditional. + + for ( prompt(); defined( $_ = <STDIN> ); prompt() ) { + # do something + } + =head2 Foreach Loops The C<foreach> loop iterates over a normal list value and sets the |