RE: RE: Re: capturing program output

You are right, but I think it's really a matter of style...

won't open $file,"myprogram here |" or die ... work as well, placing the filehandle reference in $file?

Thanks for catching the lack of error-checking...

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RE: RE: RE: Re: capturing program output by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 24, 2000 at 23:39 UTC
Only in perl 5.6, in which it's a new feature. 5.5 didn't do that. (Unless you pre-populated the variable with a `IO::Handle`-ish object.) And it has to be a variable that only has `undef` in it. Otherwise, it's treated as a symbolic reference, which may not succeed if you have "use strict refs" turned on. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]