Re: [SPOILER] Perl Quiz of the Week #24 (Turing Machine simulation)

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote:

> I am somewhat befuddled by the behaviour of $. in my 'die'
> clause at line 46 - this reports the last line number of the
> program file, rather than the current line, as I would expect
> it to. Anyone care to clue me in?

This:

for (<PROG>) {

reads in the entire file before starting the loop.  You should use:

while (<PROG>) {

instead.


Ronald