[Chicago-talk] OPEN() conditional

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Tue Jul 5 15:42:14 PDT 2011


>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> writes:

Steven> my $fh  = '';

Did you want autovivification there?  If so, leave $fh as undef, not
empty string.

Steven> open $fh, '<', $path1
Steven> or 
Steven> open $fh, '<', $path2
Steven> or 
Steven> die "$path1, $path2";

If it accidentally works with empty string, I'd be surprised.

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