"Michael Andrews" <M.C### [at] readingacuk> wrote in message
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> Hi Tom,
>
> Well, it seems to be doing exactly as it should, to me.
>

Well, it's counter my experience with other scripting langs, where separate
line-reads do not affect each other, but it is fine.

My only reason for raising this is:

a) is this what was intended?
b) if so, could the docs be clarified?

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>
> So IMHO this works as given in the documentation (ss6.2.3.3).
>

The trouble with the doc. is that it only gives a one-line example (with no
comma at the end of the line, since it is not required with a one-line file).

IMHO if the following was added to the descrip:

Note that data read by the #read directive must have comma delimiters between
values [ (even when a newlines separates the values, with each line processed by
a separate call to #read) ]

things would be a little clearer.

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