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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

eof

Synopsis

eof filehandle
eof(  )

Returns true if the next read on filehandle will return end-of-file, or if filehandle is not open. filehandle may be an expression with a value that gives the real filehandle name. An eof without an argument returns the end-of-file status for the last file read. Empty parentheses ( ) may be used in connection with the combined files listed on the command line. That is, inside a while (<>) loop, eof( ) will detect the end of only the last of a group of files. Use eof(ARGV) or eof (without parentheses) to test each file in a while (<>) loop. For example, the following code inserts dashes just before the last line of the last file:

while (<>) {
    if (eof(  )) {
        print "-" x 30, "\n";
    }
    print;
}
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