[Israel.pm] simple script question.

[Gabor Szabo]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Prager, Mark wrote:

> Hi -
> I am trying to get the following short script to work -
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> while (<STDIN>)
> {
>         chomp;
>         if (/PrintThis/) # if the line contains the word Template - prints out this line, and the next;
>         {
>                 print "$_\n";
>                 <STDIN>;
>                 print "$_\n";
>         }
> }

the call to <STDIN> puts its result to $_ only by the magic of while()
so when you call it in the middle of the loop <STDIN> reads and discards
the next line.

try replacing it by
my $line = <STDIN>;
print $line;


Gabor