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on Aug 24, 1999 at 22:42 UTC ( [id://213]=perlfunc: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
closeSee the current Perl documentation for close. Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version: close - close file (or pipe or socket) handle
close FILEHANDLE close
Closes the file or pipe associated with the file handle, returning TRUE only if stdio successfully flushes buffers and closes the system file descriptor. Closes the currently selected filehandle if the argument is omitted.
You don't have to close
FILEHANDLE if you are immediately going to do another open() on it, because open() will close it for you. (See
open().) However, an explicit close() on an input file resets the line counter (
If the file handle came from a piped open close() will additionally return
FALSE if one of the other system calls involved fails
or if the program exits with non-zero status. (If the only problem was that
the program exited non-zero Example:
open(OUTPUT, '|sort >foo') # pipe to sort or die "Can't start sort: $!"; #... # print stuff to output close OUTPUT # wait for sort to finish or warn $! ? "Error closing sort pipe: $!" : "Exit status $? from sort"; open(INPUT, 'foo') # get sort's results or die "Can't open 'foo' for input: $!"; FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value can be used as an indirect filehandle, usually the real filehandle name. |
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