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Carlos  
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 More options Oct 31 2011, 9:25 pm
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From: Carlos <an...@quovadis.com.ar>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 02:25:25 +0100
Local: Mon, Oct 31 2011 9:25 pm
Subject: Re: read text from file, a chunk of more lines at a time
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[Anton Kovalenko <an...@sw4me.com>, 2011-11-01 03:34]

> Carlos <an...@quovadis.com.ar> writes:

> > To solve your "problem", a Perl programmer would probably just read
> > and discard the first header, and then set $/ to "\n*RECORD*\n".
> > Your strawman Perl programmers are too incompetent, you should fire
> > them.

> As we can see, even a compenent, caring Perl programmer proposes "read
> and discard" instead of "read, check and discard", and that's in the
> discussion of correctness.  Why would I need a strawman?

Because I said "read and discard the first header", not "read and
discard anything whatsoever".

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