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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
August 9, 2002 02:22
Subject:
Re: Ideas for 5.10
Message ID:
20020809112006.C31B.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Fri 09 Aug 2002 07:11, Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 1) Allow filehandles to have their own input record seperators.  If a
> filehandle doesn't have it's input record seperator set at the time that
> readline/<> is called, then the global $/ variable would be used.

Same for format related stuff. Should not be too hard to localize all of these
at once to the filehandle

If it's done, I want to make them more easy accessible to solve a few open
format issues. Until now I was stopped over and over again by the globalness
of these variables

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