Re^2: Override "null filehandle"

That's not quite true:

% echo This is from STDIN|perl -e'print for <>'
This is from STDIN

% echo This is from ARGV > input1
% echo This is also from ARGV > input2
% perl -e'print for <>' input1 input2 
This is from ARGV
This is also from ARGV
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The <> operator looks first at at @ARGV and iterates line by line through each file specified as arguments to the script. But if there are no arguments (@ARGV is empty) then it falls back to reading from STDIN. This behaviour is documented in perlop, already linked to by the OP.

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Re^3: Override "null filehandle" by haukex (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2023 at 09:40 UTC
The diamond operator reads from ARGV, not STDIN. That's not quite true choroba is correct though, in that `<>` is always equivalent to `<ARGV>`, as is described in the very documentation you referenced. The magical behavior you describe is not that of the `<>` operator in general, it is that of the ARGV filehandle, which modifies @ARGV in order for `STDIN` to be read automatically via the `ARGV` handle. Reworded for clarity, shortly after posting.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Override "null filehandle" by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 05, 2023 at 22:06 UTC
`<>` always reads from `ARGV`. It's just that `ARGV` might in turn read from `STDIN`. Whether it does or not depends on `@ARGV`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]