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From: kevin@jarthur.claremont.edu (Kevin Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Question about Perl on DOS and EOF problem.
Message-ID: <11006@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 91 04:07:13 GMT
Sender: kevin@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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I am using Perl to convert some files from one format to another. The files
contain hex 1A codes (EOF markers), which need to be read as data, just like
any other code. However, as soon as the first of these comes by, I get an
eof and everything I try to getc after that comes up null.

How do I get around this? The code looks something like:

open(IN,"DATAFILE");
for($i=0;$i<100;$i++)
{
 getc(IN);
 .do.something.with.it...
}

Thanks.

Kevin Fink