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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Doubt??? [scope of variables] Post 302172598 by radoulov on Tuesday 4th of March 2008 08:19:50 AM
Old 03-04-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by qzv2jm
[...]
Question: How can I make 'x' global so that I get the value outside the loopSmilie.
Code:
% unset x
% cat file
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
% while read;do x="$x $REPLY";done<file
% echo "$x"
 line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 line 5

 

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PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline(3pm)

NAME

       PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline - The readline quote-like operator

INHERITANCE

	 PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline
	 isa PPI::Token::QuoteLike
	     isa PPI::Token
		 isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION

       The "readline" quote-like operator is used to read either a single line from a file, or all the lines from a file, as follows.

	 # Read in a single line
	 $line = <FILE>;

	 # From a scalar handle
	 $line = <$filehandle>;

	 # Read all the lines
	 @lines = <FILE>;

METHODS

       There are no methods available for "PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline" beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token::QuoteLike, PPI::Token
       and PPI::Element classes.

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SUPPORT

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AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

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