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  • Hehe. I did spot it without running the code – after I stepped out of the box and started thinking about what things it does other than its primary goal. It took about three minutes of staring.

    I can’t think of a solution that is compact, non-obfuscatory, and avoids redundancy (ie setting $/ twice) all at once. The best I can do is

    while( 1 ) {
        do {
           local $/ = "\n.\n";
           my $record = <FH>;
           last if not defined $record;
           chomp $record;
           print $record;
        };
        <STDIN>;
    }

    The tricky bit in reformulating this is that the new record separator has to be in scope for both the readline as well as the chomp. Perl5 is definitely kludgy here – this should be a property of the filehandle, not a global variable.

    • this should be a property of the filehandle, not a global variable.

      Perl 6, baby, Perl 6.

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