Re: Re: Replicate open() and close()

Thanks Fletch, I should have looked more in the docs .. they even call their example sub 'myopen'!:

Declared as: sub myopen (*;$)
Called as: myopen HANDLE, $name

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Re: Re: Re: Replicate open() and close() by sauoq (Abbot) on Jan 30, 2003 at 00:05 UTC
Declared as: sub myopen (;$)* Careful... The example in the docs won't do what you are asking for. It will complain about calling myopen() with 3 arguments. If you want it to act like perl's open(), use the same prototype that perl does. That's `;$@` as I pointed out in my reply to Fletch. `perl -le 'sub myopen(;$){print@_}myopen(FOO,"<","bar")' Too many arguments for main::myopen at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.` [download] -sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Re: Replicate open() and close()
by sauoq (Abbot) on Jan 30, 2003 at 00:05 UTC

Declared as: sub myopen (*;$)

Careful... The example in the docs won't do what you are asking for. It will complain about calling myopen() with 3 arguments. If you want it to act like perl's open(), use the same prototype that perl does. That's *;$@ as I pointed out in my reply to Fletch.

perl -le 'sub myopen(*;$){print@_}myopen(FOO,"<","bar")'
Too many arguments for main::myopen at -e line 1, at end of line
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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