[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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