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From: ijk@cbnewsh.att.com (ihor.j.kinal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: eval failures - in a commented line
Keywords: cgrep, eval bug report
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.194148.24804@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 19:41:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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While trying to extend cgrep', I ran into an interesting problem.
The eval part of the program failed [silently].  Since I had made a number
of changes, I tried commenting them out, to no avail.  Finally, by deleting
lines, I determined the failure was within a commented line that
had a print format:
#	print \$ary[\$ind], "\n";
	
By deleting the "\n", then program then seemed to work as before.

Is this a bug, or what???
This is the latest PERL, on a HP 855.

Thanks,
Ihor Kinal
att!cbnewsh!ijk
[I'm just starting, so forgive me if this is dumb.
NOTE: what I'm trying to do is to stop the context display if there
are blank lines within the context:i.e, using blank lines as 
deliminators.  I've eliminated text in the beginning prior to a blank
line before the display line, and now want
to only display those elements of the ary up to the first blank line.]