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Creating a mailing list using Perl

Sent by
Thanos Chatziathanassiou on September 08, 2000 at 05:01:09:

Worth:
Worth reading

Length:
Just right

Technical:
Not technical enough

Comments:
Good article, but I think that using the diamond operator is quite faster and more efficient, especially for larger files. (ie

while (<FILE>) {
..do something ...
}

instead of
@lines = <FILE>;
foreach (@lines) {
..do something ...
}

Also, flock() is 'blocking' by default, so there really is no need to die(). It will just stand there, waiting for the file to be released. Unless a proccess has crashed and kept the file open (in which case it will probably already have been corrupted), it should be available moments later.

Other than that, it's ok...

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