Re: [Nolug] Perl Question

Err, thats what I get for reading the last message in a thread, and not
reading the whole thread.

The while syntax tacked on the end of a statement is just for readability.
Larry Wall likes doing stuff like that, see the "unless" statement.

On 6/1/07, Friedrich Gurtler <fgurtler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its not skipping the 'do' in the 'do while' loop, its just a 'while' loop,
> ala C, C++, Java, C# etc.
>
> If you wanted to perl-ify it (for no reason), you could do something like
>
> $filename .= rand(10) while ((-f "$filename.tmp") || (-f
> "$filename.sub"));
>
> Supposedly thats easier to read, but I don't really get it. Hope this
> helps.
>
> -- Fritz
>
>
> On 6/1/07, John Souvestre < johns@sstar.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ray.
> >
> > Thanks! I did some reading and did find the -f function. But I didn't
> > see
> > anything about skipping the "do" in the "do while" loop. Can that be
> > done with
> > other constructs, too?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> > John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@redfishnetworks.com [mailto:owner-nolug@redfishnetworks.com
> > ]
> > On Behalf Of -ray
> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 12:12 AM
> > To: nolug@nolug.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Perl Question
> >
> >
> > Yep, that's what it's doing. -f is a function that returns true if the
> > file exists (see man perlfunc). It's just a "do while" loop, that keeps
> > appending a random digit to the filename until you get a filename that's
> > not in use.
> >
> > while ((-f "$filename.tmp") || (-f "$filename.sub")) {
> > $filename .= rand(10);
> > }
> >
> > ray
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 31 May 2007, John Souvestre wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to figure out a Perl script. One line in it has me
> > baffled.
> > >
> > > I believe it is intended to extend a filename till it is unique. But
> > I don't
> > > quite grasp the syntax.
> > >
> > > $filename .= rand(10) while (-f "$filename.tmp") || (-f
> > "$filename.sub");
> > >
> > > Is this a shorthand way of writing a "do while" loop?
> > >
> > > And what does the "-f" do?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com
> > >
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